The quotation is from 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and is the excuse given to Elizabeth Swann by the pirates who refuse to help her rescue her friends. Does the gospel lay moral requirements upon us, which we ignore at our peril, or is it (like the Pirates' Code) 'more a set of guidelines'?
Perhaps another question lies behind this. Is Christian faithfulness motivated by the thought of eternal rewards and punishments, or by the conviction that a Christian life is the best of all possible lives?
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