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The amoral universe

Is morality, literally, just a figment of our imagination?

Every parent will, sooner or later, experience clashes between their beliefs, and those of their children. The first such clash in my life happened when my father and I disagreed about the make of a particular car.

Throughout the 1950s, Auto Union — later to become Audi, but at the time also known as DKW —…