Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 163 | But what is not View more quotes about mistaken">mistaken? The Goreans have very different notions of morality from those of Earth. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 160 | Yet we do know there are false answers to such a question. |
| 1 | 161 | This suggests that there may be a true answer, for how can there be falsity without truth? One thing seems clear to me, that a morality which produces guilt and self-torture, which results in anxiety and agony, which shortens life spans, cannot be the answer. |
| 1 | 162 | Many of the competitive moralities of Earth are thus mistaken. |
| 1 | 163 | But what is not mistaken? The Goreans have very different notions of morality from those of Earth. |
| 1 | 164 | Yet who is to say who is the more correct? I envy sometimes the simplicities of those of Earth, and those of Gor, who, creatures of their conditioning, are untroubled by such matters, but I would not be as either of them. |
| 1 | 165 | If either should be correct it is for them no more than a lucky coincidence. |
| 1 | 166 | They would have fallen into truth, but to take truth for granted is not to know it. |
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Yet we do know there are false answers to such a question.
This suggests that there may be a true answer, for how can there be falsity without truth? One thing seems clear to me, that a morality which produces guilt and self-torture, which results in anxiety and agony, which shortens life spans, cannot be the answer.
Many of the competitive moralities of Earth are thus mistaken.
But what is not mistaken? The Goreans have very different notions of morality from those of Earth.
Yet who is to say who is the more correct? I envy sometimes the simplicities of those of Earth, and those of Gor, who, creatures of their conditioning, are untroubled by such matters, but I would not be as either of them.
If either should be correct it is for them no more than a lucky coincidence.
They would have fallen into truth, but to take truth for granted is not to know it.
- (Marauders of Gor)