If we have no system of personal restraint it’s likely we don’t care about behaving badly. If we see no REASON to be restrained it may be because we don’t expect to be confronted. If we can get away with it, if it’s done discretely so that we don’t draw attention to ourselves unnecessarily, we can behave badly, with the minimum of judgement from others. Religion tells us that God notices and that may be superstition but it is a form of restraint. Superstition itself is much more up-front - it tells us it’s all down to luck and that’s ‘luck’ that we sow.
Of course none of this matters if we already have a system that prevents us making a fool of ourselves in the long term. A philosophy?
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