I'll admit I haven't and won't read the article. I would bother if it didn't really bother me. I'll reply to the essay in itself that is the title. Really, p

I'll admit I haven't and won't read the article. I would bother if it didn't really bother me. I'll reply to the essay in itself that is the title. Really, people favor black and white because of distrust. They don't trust others, or even themselves, with what they evaluate as slippery slopes. Maybe you need to differentiate. Maybe you can exercise good judgment and know when what. People, in practice, do this. They'll never hit a person who has good reason to be physically weak, unless the unthinkable and only reactable happens and that person starts aggressing their child. And boom, hard and fast describes the response, not the rules followed. And it doesn't count, and they don't feel guilty. But talking about this is difficult. Also, look at it from the perspective of debt. The concept and many realities of debt permeate everything in modern life, especially morality. Black and white is really red and black: what I mean is that the concepts of evil and good :: heaven and hell :: serving and receiving interest are linked. Spending leads to debt / Serving yourself is evil: in death, you'll fall to hell, which is nothing other than payment for an unpayable debt that compounds faster than one can serve it. And heaven is not only the opposite, but the counterpart too: you have so many debtors paying you interest for all your good done or goods sold you are living off the interest.