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The Impossibility of External Coercion of Conventional Morality
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Seyed Mohammad Hosseini *    |
| Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran. |
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Conventional morality refers to a morality that is characteristic of a specific group or society, carrying disparate rules and dictates that differ across various cultures and communities. As such, in the domain of ethics, it is designated as a relativist approach to morality. The primary inquiry in this paper concerns whether the legislator is entitled to impose an external requirement and compulsion based on this morality, and if they are warranted in adopting a biased perspective toward this morality in their proceedings. In response to this inquiry, drawing upon the attitudes of proponents of this moral interpretation and the definitions established for it, we may refer to factors which suggest that, by critiquing this morality and highlighting its immoral dimensions—including the majoritarian tyranny, the repudiation of minority entitlements, the circumscription and jeopardy of privacy, and so on—such a reading of morality must not, in principle, be legally mandated or enforced within the community. This article aims to foreground the immoral dimensions of the conventional morality thesis and to marshal evidence in support of the impossibility of external coercion of such a morality.
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| Keywords: Conventional morality, Ethics, Immoral, External Coercion. |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2025/06/21 | Accepted: 2025/11/4 | Published: 2026/03/16
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