social norms are moral

[kelley]

one online course hardly constitutes serious examination of the sort you'd
devote to hegel, chuck.    if you think i flipped out because you'd rather
impose what you think is your correct, one and true version of norms,
morality, etc, then be my guest.  mom says, a-okay and pretty damn typical
of you to zero in on that as if it were completely unwarranted.  you seem
to forget that  you've demonstrated a great deal of hostility to the
tradition of scholarship that emerged in an effort to establish, at one
time, itself as a "science of morality" insofar as it found Kant, Bentham,
Mills et al wholly inadequate to undertanding morality and ethics.  a group
of scholars that took very seriously the attmempt to understand why the
tradition of moral philosophy had failed so miserably, why it had reflected
the ideologies of the ruling class, etc.  it's for that reason that i am
impatient with you and your refusal to actually engage me and what i'm
speaking about.  in other words, if you want to engage in critique then i
think you should do what you've proved quite capable of doing elsewhere:
read and learn and then engage in an internal critique.  you don't want or
have time to do this, fine.  what can i say except that i'll leave you
alone and won't bother any more.