Rc – Heinlein – Starship Troopers – 175 – The moral ladder
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“We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level.
Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race
— we are even developing an exact ethic for extra-human relations.
But all moral problems can be illustrated by one misquotation:
‘Greater love hath no man than a mother cat dying to […]