Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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