Stable orders require elements of both power and morality.
For the Mohists, then, the purpose of government is to achieve a stable social order by promulgating a unified conception of morality.
But how much does morality matter, even if what you want is stable and strong families?
Perhaps they don't produce prosperity, heightened morality, happiness, a better world, or a more stable state.
Given that an individual's morality depends upon their having a mature and stable personal identity, the communal conditions that foster the development of personal identity must be preserved and encouraged.
Because Breaking Bad is concerned with personal morality and not politics, the idea that someone with a stable, middle class job might resort to cooking meth to provide for his family is presented as a given: extreme, perhaps, but not incredible.
Otherwise reasonable people go slightly berserk on the subject of his motives; on the subject of his morality, the hinged fall off their door frames and even the stable become unglued.
Nor do they see room for a distinction between public and private morality, between values that everyone must share in order to maintain a stable society and values about which individuals can disagree without disrupting social harmony.
We found significant differences between the cohorts for many outcomes although we also observed relatively stable rates for smoking at booking, low birth weight, small for gestational age babies, and perinatal morality over the past decade for Indigenous women.
At the beginning of the most recent 7th edition, published in 2013, Beauchamp and Childress state that the common morality "refers to norms about right and wrong human conduct that are so widely shared that they form a stable social compact" ([ 2], p. 3).
