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

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler

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

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