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Morals and ethics are entirely separate subjects. They are not even interrelated. Of course, in this decadent age you open up the dictionary to ethics, and in a big learned statement, there’s one word sitting there—it says morals. So you say, “Well, let’s find out about this.” So you turn to morals, and then this terrifically learned dissertation there: says ethics. If you want to play around with dictionaries, you’ll find out that when two words are being defined one against the other and then back again, you can pretty well conclude that nobody’s ever figured them out. Well, it’s that case with morals and ethics.
The moral is not based upon reason, honesty, codification, good behavior or anything else. It’s based upon the fact that something, some time or other in the history of a race has been inhibitive to survival, and the powers that be at that time and their successors adjudicated the fact that it ought to be impressed upon people that they shouldn’t do this. So they say, “If you do this, something bad will happen to you.” And they don’t even explain what is bad about it, they just say, “Don’t do it. It’s immoral!” And that ends the whole argument because if you do something immoral, then the gods are going to get you or something bad is going to happen.
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