Absolutely and positively. In fact, operating independent of rigid moral codes he can have a clearer and truer version of good, right action, and desireable consequences than he sometimes can trying to fit his inherent ethical sense into a code that may or may not be flexible as regards present circumstances.

The notion that morality must be imposed from without is not only counter-productive, it can be harmful. That does not mean that beings cannot get into wayward ways, but the just correction is that which restores his clear sense of ethical choice, not one which gets him to be obedient.

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