The Face of Evil

Allan Milne Lees
13 min readOct 25, 2019
Those Who Learn Nothing From History Are Doomed To Repeat It

While it’s obvious to everyone who’s contemplated the famous Trolley Car Problem that there can be no such thing as absolute moral values and therefore there’s no simple set of rules by which we can live our lives, it’s also true that we have inherited our species’ evolved set of emotional guidelines that cause us to assess particular actions in certain ways.

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Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.