The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.