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Smith's Impartial Spectator

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Smith's standard: a sentiment or act is morally approvable when an informed, impartial spectator would sympathize with it.

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Before replying to the insulting email, imagine a fair-minded stranger reading the exchange. What that stranger could go along with is Smith's whole measure.

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