ldwechsler wrote: The problem is that morality is not always simple. The Dets think that humanity needs improvement. At the point the novels are set, the differences seem more qualitative than anything else. Honor is pretty well augmented.
The Dets want to improve mankind. Take a look at most reformers. That's what they want. The Dets and followers see their opposition as crazed folk who want to keep people down.
We have a lot of situations like that now and they are not often settled to everyone's satisfaction. Instead of a major political international battle, look at public worker pensions.
The pensions of public workers can be very large in some places. In New York City, if you worked 20 years when I began many years ago, you would make about half pay for the rest of your life. A worker got 1.2 percent per year more for the next ten years and 1.7 percent per year after that. If you actually worked 40 years you would make more than 80 percent a year for the rest of your life. And since social security would not be taken out and you would not be taxed by the New York State government, you might well take home even more money than you did working.
I worked 36 years and did well. But my nice pension is an underfunded account. If things go down, a lot of people will be paying extra taxes to keep me going strong.
The burdens are becoming gigantic for states, running into tens of billions of underfunding and in a couple of big states running past a hundred billion.
I earned that money. Others may wind up supporting me and hurting themselves by doing so. I think I have morality on my side and cities and school districts going broke feel that their tax rates are already too high and it is immoral to demand more.
Things are not simple.
The Dets feel they have the right path and that those who oppose them are immoral.
Morality is simple; it is straightforward. Morality is black and white.
Travis Uriah Long is the epitome of morality. Unfortunately, he lives a black and white life in a greater shades of gray world.
The Detweillers also have a Black and white moral compass. They, fortunately for them, live in a black and white world. They, like everyone else have their place in it.
When worlds collide ...