Abstract moral principles and self control, and not natural sentiments alone, are the basis for sustainable morality. Giants of the Earth Heritage Center wants all of us to come to the dinner that has been prepared for us and for all who follow the Golden Rule or Kant’s more qualified version, known as the categorical imperative.
“Always treat others as an end in themselves and never allow yourself to be treated as merely a means, but also as an end.”
Imagine what kind of a world we could live in if everyone taught their children to the value of living by this rule, and empowered them, by their own good example, with the self control to actually do it.