[lbo-talk] Moral Foundations

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Dec 24 21:43:39 PST 2008


On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:00:58 +0000 Peter Ward <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


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> Isn't morality a code of conduct enforced imperiously and usually arbitrary?

The short answer, I guess, is that it can be but needn't.

People have morals without enforcement. But institutions like to take over the domain of morality, as they do every other domain, and then of course they need enforcement. And enjoy it, I might add.

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