It follow that he ought to conform, since, other things being equal, one ought to do what answers both to one's own preferences and to those of other people.
We define a social norm as a rule of behavior that individuals prefer to conform to on the conditions that they believe (a) that most people in their reference network conform to it (empirical expectation), and (b) that most people in their reference network believe they ought to conform to it (normative expectation) (Bicchieri 2006).
Is it perhaps that one's beliefs ought to conform to the world, whereas the world ought to conform to one's desires (Gregory 2012)?
They ought to conform to their agreement, comply with their agreement.
God has created not only the natural world and the order existing therein but also the ethical order to which humanity ought to conform and, implicit in the ethical order, the social order.
By distinguishing the concept of law, which is purely formal, from the ideal of law, which is the realization of justice, he emphasized, unlike most 19th-century legal philosophers, the search for a theoretically valid ideal of justice with which law ought to conform.
The main medieval disagreements, therefore, are best characterized as disagreements about the extent to which the proper analysis ought to conform to the paradigm suggested by the Categories.
Indeed, if others believe one ought to conform, the reaction to nonconformity may range from slight displeasure to active or even extreme punishment.
As such, it would be intended as a statement of the ultimate norm (or as a member of the set of ultimate norms) to which individual conduct and institutional arrangements ought to conform.
A moral conception of personhood is held in African ethics, the conception that there are certain basic moral norms and ideals to which the conduct of the individual human being, if he is a person, ought to conform.
The second significant thing the statements imply is the assumption that there are certain fundamental norms and ideals to which the conduct of a human being, if he is a person, ought to conform, that there are moral virtues that an individual has the capacity to display in his conduct and ought to display them, if he is a person.
