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Journal: March 2, 2011
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Morality

Shibboleth: "Human life should be preserved at all costs"
                     "Saving peoples' lives is the highest good"

Applied to both humanity as a whole and any individual. This may be the number one moral rule of humans; also perhaps our tragic flaw.

(and a source of overreaction as in the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic of 2020 (added 27 Apr 2020)