 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
It might be maintained that a man should obey the moral code of his own community whatever it may be. I should be inclined to concede that he cannot be blamed for doing so, but I think he should often be praised for not doing so. The practice of cannibalism was once almost universal, and in most cases it was connected with religion. It cannot be supposed that it died out of itself; there must have been moral pioneers who maintained that it was an evil practice.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 1
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