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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulC" data-source="post: 1431148" data-attributes="member: 16843">I have often used C.S. Lewis's fleet of ships analogy to explain why it is important not to have the morally bankrupt leading society and how our private indiscretions are not private at all, as they affect our neighbor through the steering of our own personal ship."The voyage will be a success only, in the first place, if the ships do not collide and get in one another’s way; and, secondly, if each ship is seaworthy and has her engines in good order. As a matter of fact, you cannot have either of these two things without the other. If the ships keep on having collisions, they will not remain seaworthy very long. On the other hand, if their steering gears are out of order, they will not be able to avoid collisions." - Mere Christianity</blockquote>