[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

[Chris Doss]

If this is true, then why do ethical principles and social practice often conflict? Where did all those ethical objections to Jim Crow come from?

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> 
> How about this: ethics is the social practice of justifying
> existing patterns of behavior in a society.  (Ethical
> principles do not "drive" individual behavior and
> social relations; just the opposite.)
> 
> Miles
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