You do you?
“You do you” was the response to the question, “What do you think about a sixteen-year-old smoking pot?” “You do you” meaning that whatever a person does is OK as long as it doesn’t hurt that person or anyone else.
The setting for this discussion was a Christian Science Sunday School class. The topic? Moral values.
Moral values define our relationships with each other: how we treat each other, what standards we have for specific behaviors. It was a lively discussion that started with a class consensus that moral values are more or less irrelevant, provided your behavior isn’t detrimental to anyone, including you.
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