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He just wanted to stop people using morality against their own interests, especially in futile revolts or religious wars.
When people explicitly talk about the morality of a group other than their own or of a person other than themselves, it is usually clear that they are using "morality" in a descriptive sense.
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"When H.I.V. was spreading province by province through China, the Chinese government spent a lot of time working with religious groups to use morality to defend the people against AIDS," said Wan Yanhai, who runs a Chinese Web site about H.I.V. and recently co-authored a report called "The Foreign Shepherd," about the International Educational Foundation's work in China.
Although most philosophers do not use "morality" in any of these descriptive senses, some philosophers do.
All of those who use "morality" normatively also hold that, under plausible specified conditions, all rational persons would endorse that code.
Among those who use "morality" normatively, all hold that "morality" refers to a code of conduct that applies to all who can understand it and can govern their behavior by it.
Such a person must have sufficient knowledge and intelligence to understand what kinds of actions morality prohibits, requires, discourages, encourages, and allows, and also must have sufficient volitional ability to use morality as a guide for their behavior.
When a person uses "morality" to refer to a guide to conduct put forward by a group, unless it is his own group, it is usually only being used in its descriptive sense.
The harm caused by Christian missionaries who used morality as a basis for trying to change the sexual practices of the societies to which they came may have been one of the reasons why many anthropologists endorsed ethical relativism.
Among those philosophers who use "morality" to refer to a universal guide that all rational persons who are fallible and vulnerable would put forward for governing the behavior of all moral agents, the differences in content are less significant than their similarities.
Let's get down to the nitty-gritty on the torture issue with a word Mr. Dershowitz used: Morality.
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