Episode #241 ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

“for Brutus and Cassius, to say that in the name of preserving the republic and all that it stands for, I need to kill this person I think is dangerous. This is the definition of stepping outside of a peaceful way of working through political differences to supposedly preserve the sanctity of the peaceful political setup.”

“when you consider the fact that that code that someone's honoring is always something they've received from other people, and when you consider that it's your public reputation that is where your honor usually lies, well, this externalizes the moral process in a way that takes people out of internal deliberation about what the right thing to do is and turns their decision-making into something very simple.”