And so the saga of Ivar Kreuger presents a credible explanation of how giant Ponzi enterprises come about: not as sudden inspirations of criminal masterminds but as the gradual culmination of small moral compromises made by financiers who aren't quite as ingenious as they think.
"It's a story of how average people.... people a lot like us... can make a series of small moral mistakes... and before they know it they have slid all the way down the slippery slope... snorting blow, fucking the oil executives and writing slack contracts with (kick-back) consulting gigs for themselves built into the deal.
In contrast, autonomous vehicles at large would immediately create a more equitable age distribution of crash victims -- a small moral victory in its own right.
But more likely a series of smaller, evanescent moral crusades".
Infantile behavior taken by some of you, like taunting police, blowing cigarette smoke in their faces and throwing rocks through the windows of small businesses takes the moral high ground away from the movement, legitimizes the rule of the 0.1percentt and justifies the existence of an oppressive police state to the average American whom we're trying to reach.
Yet this is the voice, as chair of Aosis, now supposedly representing the moral force of small island states at the international climate negotiations.
I would even make the argument that parenting may in fact be the most important job in the world, given that it involves overseeing the physical, intellectual, social and moral development of small humans who will eventually grow up and take charge of the planet.
I've never been to a park where the people are more relaxed, tolerant and appreciative of any small, even moral, victory.
The ideal, idyll even, of building a network of local sites dedicated to local news and the goings and doings of small communities was, I think in moral terms, worth exploring.
The moral sense, though not moral ideas, is innate, as can be seen from the sentiments of small children (1725: 145 146).
