ZAVibes

We are the product of the our experiences, so of course you’re going to have similar morality to people around you, but that doesn’t mean you’re not independent.

Sure it does. Independent people transcend their time. Copernicus realized the sun didn’t go around the earth when traditional teachings, everyone around him, and even the evidence of his senses said that it did. At the time the idea was such a stretch that he had a hard time believing it himself: he was forced into it, because it was the only way to make the numbers come out right.

It may be hard to transcend your time, but I think one should at least aspire to, instead of comforting oneself with the thought that being the product of a particular time and place excuses one for being mistaken…