The core difference is between individual knowing and sensing optimum action--the innate sense of ethics -- and the substitute system of morality by agreement.

There is nothing inherently wrong, for example with cannibalism per se, but it is rarely an ethical choice except for extreme situations such as that of the Donner party.

But by long-standing inherited moral agreements we have a code that is so deepseated as to make the notion repulsive, if not nauseating.

As Janie points out there is no easy way for the law to be flexible enough to deal with change.


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