Of course it’s easy to say one has no morals at all when the morals in question are so much more complicated—they’ll seem permissive by your ability to manipulate them in contrived edge cases. This complication, though, is for adaptation to the real world—they have something useful to say about very real cases that Victorian morality completely chokes and dies on.
But that’s not really in conflict with the point of the quote, is it?
Of course it’s easy to say one has no morals at all when the morals in question are so much more complicated—they’ll seem permissive by your ability to manipulate them in contrived edge cases. This complication, though, is for adaptation to the real world—they have something useful to say about very real cases that Victorian morality completely chokes and dies on.
But that’s not really in conflict with the point of the quote, is it?