We cannot conceive of absolute badness. Both are alike inconceivable. After we have had a certain amount of experience, we then reason from analogy. If consequence are good, so is the action. The highest possible standard is human.
Every church unconsciously allows people to commit crimes on credit.
I do not mean by this that any church consciously advocates immorality. But there is a frightful defect in their philosophy. There is no reward, there is no punishment, but there are consequences, and these consequences are the invisible and implacable police of nature. They cannot be avoided. They cannot be bribed.