Uniqueness and freedom have as their consequence that one can never regard other people merely as means, but must always treat them as ends in themselves ... - Brier

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        <b>Uniqueness and freedom have as their consequence that one can never regard other people 
        merely as means, but must always treat them as ends in themselves</b>
      
      
        . As beings they have the fundamental authority to define their existence and its meaning 
        themselves, including their own values and their morality. And that entails simultaneously 
        that we must respect other people to do the same. In this way it becomes no not morality 
        but ethics - understood as the meta-discussion of morals and how they can function 
        together in a common system which is the universal basis for any discussion of values. We 
        must therefore accept that we can find no universal morality." (Brier, vol 1, no 4) 
      
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