'China was founded to ensure survival, not as an Earthly manifestation of God's moral covenant with Man, the latter blessed with a divine right to pursue happiness. Indigenous schools of Chinese philosophy -- Daoism, Confucianism, and Legalism -- are mechanistic, concerned with values as a means to an end -- that is, social and cosmological stability. To the extent morals exist, they serve a greater purpose of aligning heaven and earth. Inherently relativistic, China's moral topography shifts to address external circumstances. (It is not always wrong to murder.) And pragmatism is, again, a key driver. Religious practices -- meat and potatoes Buddhism, originally imported from India but adapted to accommodate secularity -- focus on gods of wealth and kitchens, not spiritual enlightenment. The Chinese do not obsess on higher meaning. They are concerned with today, not eternity.'
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