We’ve now heard a large number of theories, spanning dozens of centuries, all of which have given us reasons to care about whether what we’re doing is good and playbooks for how we might try to be better. But there’s one essential aspect of the human condition that none of them really deals with: context. Few of these philosophies grapple with the plain fact that moral choices are a lot harder for some of us than they are for others, depending on our circumstances. How can it be that the same exact rules apply to me, Prince William, that poor woman whose doctor got her addicted to OxyContin, a
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