“every society has an honor code that says, "We value these things. We don't really value those things." What I think is really interesting to see as a historian is that honor codes are never fixed. You know, they are cultural artifacts. They can change.”

“The ethical emotivist is someone who thinks that ethical statements are just expressions of emotion. means that when you say something is good or bad or that you should or shouldn't do something, all of that moral language is a kind of emotional expression.”

“they're afraid of being called Nazis they are afraid of being prejudiced you know because it's easy once there's a pool of Bad actors in a given identifiable group to the whole group and when you should do that when you shouldn't is not a simple question there's lots of complex reasons but one of th”

“There's a Christian injunction that you're to pick up your cross and carry it voluntarily. That's the adventure of your life.”

“the solution to that is finding a way to make your life about something more than yourself.”

“Justice to me though is the North Star the value that unlocks the others”

“moralism is if you look at things in a framework not of true versus false but of right versus wrong bad versus good once you put on that frame tyler cowan has a quote somewhere in a ted talk he says we think in stories but as soon as you put a good evil story as soon as you interpret things in terms”

“the world has far too much morality by which i meant far too much moralization alluding to the fact that history's greatest bloodbaths were not caused by greedy vdk is feathering their own nest accumulating palaces and harems uh they were moralistic crusades”