For simplicity, the rest of this supplement will focus on practical moral skepticism about what is morally required.
The starting point of the capability approach is that the equality that matters morality or that we are morally required to sustain is equality of freedom of some sort.
When respondents were asked what they themselves thought was morally required in terms of benefits to participants, regardless of existing legal requirements or norms, the answers were markedly different from those around legal requirements.
In ethics, we call acts that go beyond what is morally required supererogatory, and the situations that enable them may be called moral opportunities. .
What such practical moral skeptics deny is that I always have reason to do what is morally required.
Mr. Hochberg's lawyer, Kevin J. Plunkett of Thacher Proffitt & Wood in White Plains, sent a letter to both school districts on March 19, demanding that they "effectuate the legally and morally required alteration of the school district boundary lines".
But if violence is morally motivated, punishment is unlikely to be effective because, as the authors write, "people will do what is morally required if they feel their cause is righteous – whatever the consequences".
That is, he contended that anyone who benefits greatly from the presence of some institution is morally required to bear a commensurate share of the burden of sustaining that institution's existence.
What is not possible is not morally required, for example.
Intuitively, PD just says that if doing A brings about B, and if A is obligatory (morally required), then B is obligatory (morally required).
These claims are equivalent because it is morally wrong not to do what is morally required.
