- Horton's view is false, since justice is not coldly-logical
but rather humane-personal-emotional. When we compare the
primitive African tribes to Western modern people, we are
not comparing a subjective personal, unjust notion of justice
to a pure impartial justice. Western morality is ailing,
and the symptom of its illness is its attempt to uproot
emotion and to act only according to logic. The primitive
African tribes' morality is one which draws on religious
faith, and as such is more emotional than that which Westerners
espouse. Fortunately, the analytic morality Westerners champion
does not successfully eradicate from their hearts the morality
that is connected to emotion - a blessed consequence of
Western morality's failure.
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