moral norm

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At bottom, we do not create epistemic and moral norms.
First, the moral norms of fetal personhood in a particular community must be described.
My aim is merely to allay worries about holding ethical theories answerable to moral norms in the way that my present proposal does.
There are no moral norms outside the boundary set by our capacities.
Unfortunately, the rule of recognition tells me that moral norms are law, but does not tell me how to distinguish moral from non-moral norms.
What legal positivism must account for in terms of its own basic commitments is simply the fact that moral norms do figure importantly in adjudication.
In contrast, moral norms provide members of a particular community with reasons for action regardless of whether those agents believe in them.
Moral norms are not necessarily involved in this distinction between direct and indirect harm to others.
This principle establishes that if youths do not behave according to moral norms, they must atone and submit to moral correction.
After all, enforcement of legal as well as moral norms during this period relied much more on local co-operation and surveillance than on official coercion.
Often these may not be fully conscious, or not admitted to, since they are outside social and moral norms.
Both lay people and professionals can attempt to articulate the moral norms for either the lay or professional roles.
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