Photo by Alexey Trubachev Moral Mountains: Every individual and every tribe or nation lives by a hierarchy of moral standards. These standards can vary dramatically across a population or even within a person, like the peaks in a mountain range. But over time, we tend to see one peak dominate the horizon, reaching upward to a higher elevation than the others. That is not to say the highest peak is always that best. It may only be the most dominant. In his book, The Second Mountain: the Quest for a Moral Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Brooks says, "The first mountain is the individualist worldview, which puts the desires of ...