&gt; I&#x27;ll probably maintain for all my days that there is no good or evil, just acts. Yes, cry &quot;moral relativism!&quot;, but morals are social constructs, whether you like it or not - there is no universal law of morality, even if your name is Kant.<p>Actually, &quot;do unto others as you would have done unto you&quot; is a pretty damn near universal law of morality.  It doesn&#x27;t encompass things like when to punish bad actors, but it covers a huge range of situations that we encounter every day.<p>However, what most people never recognize is that <i>apathy</i> is the mechanism that allows small evils to persist long enough to turn into great evils.  Often even a few individuals standing up at the beginning can thwart a rising tide that will be impossible to resist once it gets going.