Character armor keeps people from feeling own fluid existence and their community. So they see pleasure only indirect - in things totally outside of themselves. The image of the innocent is an image of a sensuous being with the sexuality moved to a mystical plane. The capitalist accounting of the free market uproots each superstition and archaic value. The world economy shows us that the earth, the air, the oceans and ideas all have prices fixed by mining rights, pollution rights and intellectual property.
Pure morality reduces all thinking to atoms of choice.
C.S. Lewis gives a list of quotes that show the similarity of Christian and the other laws of other religions. The modern moral philosopher, such as C. S. Lewis, decomposes every total myth into a series of small choices based on arbitrary values. Pure morality is a product of this society. It is marketed like any other commodity. A good civilization thinks nothing of murdering millions of people to get them to understand the need to protect innocents.