The second defense mechanism, anchoring, is to identify oneself with various social constructs: one's family role, job, religion, morality, position in society, physicality, goals.
There were many people who were as fervently engaged in promoting their morality in exact opposition to the moral positions I had once held so securely.
In a nutshell, only the 'Common-Sense Morality' theoretical position was amply supported.
If the state imposes morality, if it denies the right of the individual to decide their own moral positions, that is fascism.
When Kant then turns to his own position, positing a synthetic relationship between morality and happiness, he argues that if practical reason's need for a total object is to be met, morality and happiness can only be brought together through not merely a synthetic law, but more precisely, through a normative (rather than causal) synthetic law.
Second, a metaethical moral relativist position might be defended by emphasizing aspects of morality other than disagreement.
The partner seeking third-party objectivity will likely employ a belief system that assigns rightness, virtue or greater morality to their position and therefore, will not be seeking some true compromise, but instead acquiescence by their mate to what must be the right way.
They argue that we have compelling reasons to reject the presuppositions of moral thought.[12] The error theorists' position regarding morality is the counterpart, with respect to moral thought, of the atheist's position with respect to views concerning God's will and ways.
Social drama, denied the use of political issues by censorship, confined itself to the tension between new money and old social position, the morality of financial speculation, and the threat to family life posed by extramarital sexual relationships all themes touched upon previously in light comedy (in, for example, the plays of Eugène Scribe).
Malebranche starts from the Augustinian position that morality concerns the proper ordering of our love.
As Shaftesbury saw it, Locke's anti-innateness implies what we would call a culturally relativist position on morality.
