From my self-centered perspective, it is still not "safe" yet to paraphrase a very unethically-themed movie, "The Marathon Man," but what the heck...

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."
-Albert Einstein

of and from another great mind...

"Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. The World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons."
� Friedrich Nietzsche

or of and from a person who was not known as a "great thinker" but who was known for his "common sense"...

"A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs."
-Harry S. Truman

or of and from another great mind, Peter Albert David Singer an Australian applied secular ethicist...

"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."

"At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places."

or of and from another great mind, Albert Schweitzer...

"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."

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