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    Predictable failures due to partiality, lack of foresight... — Carmelics
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    Supports→An individual may be unwilling for others to attempt to follow a moral code even if the individual would be willing for others to successfully follow it

    Predictable failures due to partiality, lack of foresight, or lack of intelligence produce bad effects

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    In the descriptive sense of “morality”, a person’s own morality cannot be a guide to behavior that that person would prefer others not to follow. However, that fact that an individual adopts a moral code of conduct for his own use does not entail that the person requires it to be adopted by anyone else. An individual may adopt for himself a very demanding moral guide that he thinks may be too difficult for most others to follow. He may judge people who do not adopt his code of conduct as not bei

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