There would be no external standards
of what is right and wrong, just and
unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence
of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free
society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution
of moral beliefs to generate
values which would continue to underpin the market order.19
With these pardons, I have selected cases that exemplify the
values of New York State and any civilized
society: atonement, forgiveness, compassion, and the need to achieve justice, and not simply strict adherence to
unjust statutes.