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.

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Richard Lee, rlee@comp.uark.edu, last modified: 23 February 1999