Alexander McCall Smith quote: We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we ...

We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.

~ Alexander McCall Smith ~

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