Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

There is a very frank realism with those of the Jewish community that I can relate to. Regardless of the amount of buy-in of community members to the supernatural overtones of the temple, they realize that groups centered around family and friends and ethics breed better micro-societies.

Interesting how he discusses the regulated out-thinking and gaming the regulators, nodding to the fact that the ethics cannot be externally regulated, they need to be internally inculcated and fostered.

We need to infuse our posterity with ethics and morals to as to prevent their further decline in values.

Bertrand Russell: "The evils of the world are due to moral defects quite as much as to lack of intelligence. But the human race has not hitherto discovered any method of eradication moral defects...Intelligence, on the contrary, is easily improved by methods known to every competent educator. Therefore, until some method of teaching virtue has been discovered, progress will have to be sought by improvement of intelligence rather than of morals."

Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks