I thought what it meant to be a good person through the lens of ethical behavior was just a piece of art floating through the universe. And then over the next three and a half years the word "ethics" has appeared on the front page of the newspaper more days than not. And that was completely coincidental. .....So I think that's good, but lucky for us so they don't know anything that's going on on Earth so they can't comment on it. And we wanted to avoid the political climate anyway because the current political climate has little to do with the history of philosophy.
-Michael Schur (September 16, 2019)