At the very least, morality doesn't forbid it.In practice, arguments like Mr Black's and Ms Walsh's tend to come to the silly idea that one's ideological opponents are duty-bound (by their own lights!) to either unilaterally disarm or shut up.
Richard Joyce goes even further in claiming that our very morality is an evolved property of the brain.
Others hold that morality depends on religion because the very idea of morality makes sense only if there is a God who sets objective standards or who will reward and punish people in the life to come.
Respect for persons is a central concept in many ethical theories; some theories treat it as the very essence of morality and the foundation of all other moral duties and obligations.
The situation requires the very basics of morality.
There are plenty of people, of course, mainly columnists working for national newspapers, who sneer at the very idea of morality in football and cite Stamford Bridge, say, as the new Sodom and Gomorrah.
For such reasons, Baier claims that trust is "the very basis of morality" (2004, 180).
Indeed, immunity from luck has been thought by many to be part of the very essence of morality.
But for a Calliclean like Nietzsche, it is part of the very appeal of morality that it does thwart the flourishing of higher men.
This is particularly the case with those eighteenth-century British authors who argued against Hobbes and Mandeville that the very possibility of morality requires that we be capable of genuinely benevolent emotions.
