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Originally Posted by HarryT
Pretty much the same thing. "Mores" are the generally accepted moral standards of a group - eg a culture or society.
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And as such are acknowledged to be culturally and historically situated whereas, on some accounts at least, morals transcend the cultural and historical specificity in which they are manifest. For example, raping babies might be thought to be a moral issues in the sense that, it could be argued, it is always and everywhere wrong. Taking hallucinogenic drugs, on the other hand, might be thought to be more a question of of culturally specific mores - at some times and in some places it is considered a degenerate and disapproved of activity and at some times and in some places it is considered an elite and valued activity.
Morals are, it can be argued, universal whilst mores are not. However, the point was that the respondents above seem to have misread fjtorres' contribution and I was simply pointing that out.
Are you maintaining that there is actually no difference between mores and morals Harry, and that therefore the misreading, if that's what it is, makes no difference?