"You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in."
The quote is painted in black and white across a brick wall building in a large cityscape, and is regularly quoted on social media as a statement calling for progress and change. The concept of continuous moral progress over time, born out of the Enlightenment era and continuing into postmodernity, has become a paradigm by which we critique the past, gauge our ethical compass, and form policy. The absence of moral objectivity and the assumption of ever-increasing moral growth are present in many areas of society, from social justice causes to pop culture, leaving us with no sound means by which to make genuine moral judgments beyond the subjective mantra of social progress.
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