if gold shall rust what will iron do? Neitzsche in a nutshell/ part 2

if gold shall what will iron do? Nietzsche in a nutshell/ part 2

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

The higher the duty of the enactor the more onerous the sin. Such is the premise behind Dante's numbered circles of hell with more terrifying punishments for sins committed by those who conspire but have special status or duty not to do so.

But are all conspirators capable of ethical behavior? Is eating too much a sin? Is buying, selling, hoarding and keeping sin or sad malady? Is display of animal behavior sin or primordial lust?

Poet Chaucer, keen Judge of human behavior asks if gold shall rust what will iron do?

Ethics texts resale badly at used book stores. Ethics are not taught in Public schools and Bank examiners do not have surprise inspections to members of the Federal reserve network for Ethical behavior. Most don't go to church and no one listens to sermons anyway and Preacher's don't want too upset the Flocks by disturbing their eating, buying and selling and hoarding anymore.

Only a fool thinks of ethics. In the past the money lender made his loans at onerous interest rates and just prior to death arranged to build a temple or stupa as remorse tax against his sinning. Was the slate clean, or was he headed for a numbered circle in Hell for eternity?

Ethics, it's the forgotten science of our times.