Ethics and Values / Unit 1 Ethics 004 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Reasons Requirement
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The idea
A moral judgment must be backed by reasons; a verdict nobody can support with reasons is a preference wearing a verdict's clothes.
In practice
A neighbor calls the new family's late dinners "wrong" but can name no harm, no broken promise, no unfairness. Nothing remains to discuss — or to accept.
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