I began this article with the story about the legislature and pi to underline the point that some things are not ours to define. They are not ours to modify. They are only ours to attempt to understand and apply. Either morality is like that, or it is like a preference between pizza and sushi. Either morality stands outside of us, like Lady Wisdom, judging both ourselves, our neighbours, and our ancestors… or we are merely shoppers at HEB deciding between the varieties of sushi. Genghis Kahn liked sushi wrapped in seaweed, Wilberforce liked his with artificial crab meat.
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A Piece of Pi