Dick Reichart Nothing else generates as much argument as a subject on which everyone really agrees.
People are righteous.
Yet, it often seems the big problems of ethics are not so much in identifying what we should avoid doing, but in coming to agreement on which matters we are obligated to initiate action, and with what methods we should then act. Choosing what is central, what is more important, becomes the subject of debate among the most strongly motivated persons. The natural force of human right eousness goes beyond the benevolence sometimes seen in animals, but its outcome is often more conflict over just what is to be done. As the world grows smaller, our exposure to the world's evils grows larger. Constant discussion and publicity provides instant intimacy with troubles that in the past would have been distant or even alien.