Examples of Claims of Descriptive Ethics:
- Arkansans in general think capital punishment is morally permissible.
- The Greeks believed it was wrong to eat the dead.
- The Pope thinks that it is wrong to use artificial means of birth
control.
- Prof. Lee thinks it is morally wrong for students to cheat on class
examinations and assignments.
- Many people in the United States today think that Clinton's conduct
with Monica Lewinsky was morally despicable.
- Different societies have different moral codes.
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 6 July 2008