However, even in small homogeneous societies that have no written language, distinctions are sometimes made among morality, etiquette, law, and religion.
When "morality" is used simply to refer to a code of conduct put forward by any actual group, including a society, whether it is distinguished from etiquette, law, and religion, then it is being used in a descriptive sense.
Women actively conceal their menstrual irregularities through practices of the 'menstrual etiquette' (Laws, 1990) which involves the strategic concealment of menstrual problems.
Web etiquette and law haven't yet figured out how to define digital plagiarism, but they are catching up on finding quality.
The original descriptive sense of "morality," parallel to the descriptive senses of "etiquette" and "law," has two formal features: that morality is a code of conduct that is put forward by a society and that members of that society accept it as a guide for their behavior.
It is likely to happen even before we figure out the etiquette and laws around sharing this knowledge.
To that end, the programming community promotes a vague nu-Asimov's Law etiquette for bots that, though it doesn't stop them from becoming Skynet-style self-aware and firing rockets at them, at least stops them being less annoying to people as they try to go about their daily social media lives.
Instead, the show launches straight into life of nonchalant social blogger Alex, grappling not with his sexuality, but with the universal dilemmas of gym etiquette and the laws of public-transport eye contact.
"Prison etiquette is like a law," he says.
The movie, in other words, is really about religion, education, science, culture, etiquette and rule of law — the pillars of community.
But, for all his appearance as the very model of conservative respectability, his merciless lampooning of the heartless constraints of laws and etiquette reveal him, underneath it all, to have been a genuine free spirit and a true anarchist.
