Man cannot define the good
We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us.
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Berry, W. (2018). The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry. Penguin.