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21 " Ancient Pagan moralists centered discussion on what philosophers call the moral agent, the person who makes decisions with moral consequences. Much moral thought nowadays, by contrast, focuses instead on the moral patient, the entity – not necessarily a person – who is affected by a moral decision. This is valid when it leads others to give the moral patient a voice in the decision, making the patient an agent; such concerns are central to the logic of democracy, and to most concepts of fairness and justice as well. But this is not what many of today’s moral crusaders do. Instead, they claim the right to speak for the moral patient, even when it is necessary to shout down the moral patient in order to do so. The "
― John Michael Greer , A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry Into Polytheism