There's plenty of experimental evidence that moral action really does strengthens moral convictions, just as amoral action strengthen amoral attitudes.
It features one of literature's most pitiless and vibrant depictions of vice, in the form of a quasi-mythical character, fat and hairless, who becomes the novel's amoral centre.
Think of it, we are building creepy, super capable, amoral psychopathsthat don't sleep and think much faster than us, can make copies of themselvesand have nothing human about them at all.
I owe a great deal to Fleming for one reason only - that Fleming produced - by writing that type of romanticized, heroic, amoral novel, he produced what you might call a counter-market, which I was able to satisfy.