to that particular issue. When most people debate about ethics, they are debating normative ethics, or what the moral norms should be and how those norms apply to the issues at hand. Of course, ethics is not the only normative discipline.5 For example, the law produces legal norms but not necessarily moral ones, although law and morality probably overlap significantly. In addition, there are norms of good taste and social acceptability, which we call etiquette. Further, religion produces behavioral
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