It is assumed that within everyone there is an inscribed understanding of right and wrong and what decent human behavior should be. However, this is not always the case because if it were true, there would be no evil or wrong in the world. Also people have different definitions of “decent behavior” and what they view is right. The book describes different situations where people do different things and have different outcomes because their beliefs are different. With this it is shown that the idea is not “obvious to everyone.”
The Law of Nature was thought to be known to every person and this quote exemplifies this idea. It is made clear that this is not the truth because in every person the conscience is different and each person
The Law of Nature was thought to be known to every person and this quote exemplifies this idea. It is made clear that this is not the truth because in every person the conscience is different and each person