Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it at every turn. A moral view can never be proven right or wrong by any ultimate test.

— Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy a.co/fu8LHDw

This view assumes the individual as the supreme condition of humanity. “The right is the interest of the powerful,” said Thrasymachus. There are two kinds of power. Individual and collective. What is right, is the contest between them.