> why on earth would a moral person cheer for this? the concept right contains merely the negation of wrong, and every action is subsumed under it which does not transgress the limit, i.e., is not a denial of the will of another for the stronger assertion of our own. that limit, therefore, divides, as regards a purely moral definition, the whole province of possible actions into such as are wrong or right. whenever an action does not encroach on the sphere of the assertion of will of another, denying it, it is not wrong. therefore, for example, the refusal of help to another in great need, the quiet contemplation of the death of another from starvation while we ourselves have more than enough, is certainly cruel and fiendish, but it is not wrong.
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