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A central question of ethics should be to ask, “What ought to be done?” Yet, arriving at the answer may not be easy because: ... we are both children of light and children of darkness, and that it is our capacity for goodness which makes ethics possible while it is our propensity for evil that makes it necessary.
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Lander, M.M. (1999). Circumcision and Virtue Ethics. In: Denniston, G.C., Hodges, F.M., Milos, M.F. (eds) Male and Female Circumcision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-39937-9_35
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