I’ll try to work it into my next conversation.
I never was good in philosophy. I was always taught that a person needs a well-informed conscience and an altruistic love of neighbor and a genuine desire to show love to God that a person does what he believes is right, or better for the other person (the self-sacrifice of a parent for a child, for example) was how things worked. With guys like Kant and a Bentham with his utilitarianism, there is a disquieting component, like an “all for the good of the state” and “only those useful for the state are good” mentality found in communism, socialism, nazism, etc... Just a thought.