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Moral Dependence

Moral Dependence

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Colin Wright
May 26, 2022
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Morality is generally defined as a personal sense of what's right and wrong, while ethics is what's right and wrong according to a given tribe, society, or civilization.

Said another way: ethics is the normative, social sense of good and bad, while morality is one's personal, internal version of the same.

So it's possible to behave morally without behavin…

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