![]() In the normal run of life we are fairly conflicted about The veil of secrecy is demonized, because informing endangers the entire Groups, crooked cops, the Clinton White House-and anyone who parts In criminal enterprises the informer (rat, squealer, snitch) is immoralīecause the enterprise depends on secrecy-i.e., the Mafia, Revolutionary/Terrorist Take an example on a smaller scale: the morality of informing. Morality then flows from the political structures that So man traded off aĬertain amount of autonomy to a central authority in exchange for protectionįrom other men. Nature, life was "Nasty, brutish and short". Hobbes makes the much more convincing case that for man in the state of Golding would have done well to read Hobbes' Ethics and morality areĪ function of the political system that society's adopt, not vice versa. Society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not onĪny political system however apparently logical or respectable." ![]() "The theme of the book is an attempt to trace the defects of Society back ![]() ![]() In the notes to the copy of the book that I read, Golding said that ![]()
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