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So it is with duty. The thought of responsibility varies much among different countries. In one single country, if a man does not do specific things, people will say he has acted wrongly; while if he does these very things in another country, people will say that he did not act correctly -- and yet we realize that there should be some common idea of responsibility. In exactly the same way, one class of society thinks that certain things are among its work, while if it'd to do those things yet another class thinks just the opposite and would be horrified.
Two ways are left open to us -- the way of the ignorant, who think that there is only 1 way to reality and that all the others are wrong, and the way of the wise, who admit that, based on our mental constitution or different planes of existence where we are,duty and morality can vary greatly. The biggest thing is to know that you can find gradations of duty and of morality -- that the duty of one state of life,in one set of circumstances, won't and can not be that of another.
To illustrate: All great teachers have taught, "Resist perhaps not evil," that low - resistance is the highest ethical ideal. We all know that, if your certain quantity of us attempted to put that belief fully in to practice, the entire social fabric would fall to pieces, the evil would just take possession of our lives and our properties, and would do whatever they just as in us. It'd cause disaster, even if only 1 time of such low - weight were practised. Yet, naturally, in our heart of hearts we feel the reality of the training "Resist not evil." This generally seems to us to function as the best ideal; yet to teach this doctrine only could be comparable to condemning a vast percentage of mankind.
Not merely so, it'd be making men feel that they certainly were always doing wrong, and cause in them scruples of conscience in most their actions; it would destroy them, and than any weakness would that continuous self - disapproval would reproduce more vice. To the person who has started to hate himself the door to degeneration has already opened; and exactly the same is true of a state.
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