Here's a contemporary quote from Oscar Wilde that hits at the same issue, in a way that's easier for modern readers to digest: "I never came across anyone in w

Here's a contemporary quote from Oscar Wilde that hits at the same issue, in a way that's easier for modern readers to digest: "I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts."