 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Moral codes, as we have seen, differ in different societies; Bornean head-hunters and Quakers, for example, differ widely as to the sort of conduct that they advise. We may say: the virtuous man obeys the code of his own community. Or we may say: the virtuous man obeys the code of my community. Broadly speaking, in dealings with savages, administrators adopt the former view and missionaries the latter. But in some respects the administrators agree with the missionaries; for example, even the most tolerant of them try to extirpate cannibalism.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 2
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