But we must honor the Deity and leave him to avenge his own cause. The second or informal level, occurs within the cultural norms of a society, where government instructs, encourages, and equips its people to order their private and public lives within the external constraints of formal law that is, society's belief about what is right, and what is wrong. In fact, without consensus at the second level, formal law will either be ignored, altered, or abolished over time to accommodate the diversity of opinion on the subject of morals. We might as well conduct science without the scientific method as govern society according to diverse moral principles. For instance, diversity in the colors of a rainbow gives us beauty, but diversity in morality and ethics gave us Hitler.
Diversity is, in fact, an anti-principle, that suffocates virtue.
It is devoid of meaning and incapable of providing order. For example, situational ethics, which now predominates in our schools, is an anti-principle which instructs our children to resolve moral questions, not according to fixed standards of right and wrong, but rather, according to individual feeling and preference. Our society no longer has the restraining influence of cultural taboos because, of necessity, they can derive only from the moral consensus of a community instead, all that stands between us and the next Columbine are the diversity of feelings and preferences of teenagers with no moral compass who believe it is their birthright to have a high self-esteem quotient. To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. To deny this is to deny the nature and being of man.