You know, I read the book "Utilitarianism: For and Against" by J. J. C. Smart in 1994. And I think it shaped my views. I was already beginning to rethink a lot of things then. I always have. I rethink and I question things, always. But, Smart said something interesting in that book. He said, people think there is one true standard. But sometimes what a person thinks is right changes. Even from moment to moment even, depending on what mood he's in, Smart said. That is why it is so hard to agree on one list of rules, or one standard. Actually, though I was reading recently online. All decent people tend to agree what is important. Or at least what is most important. Things like that we all have law and order. And then a good quality of life. Both guaranteed by the society we live in. People just disagree how to reach this goal. But some people, I read just now online, take a more harsh approach to it. And I would add that sometimes people take the opposite approach. But as I often tell people, history rarely remembers how easy-going a culture was. Not even when dealing with its evil members. But it always remembers the time when their society was too harsh, too cruel, too unforgiving, too intolerant...
