noun, pl.
- the principles of right and wrong conduct. (HCO PL 3 May 72)
- morals should be defined as a code of good conduct laid down out of the
experience of the race to serve as a uniform yardstick for the conduct of individuals and
groups. Such a codification has its place; morals are actually laws. Morals are,
to some degree, arbitraries, in that they continue beyond their time. All morals originate
out of the discovery by the group that some act contains more pain than pleasure. (SOS, p. 129)
- are things which were introduced into the society to resolve harmful practices which
could not be explained or treated in a rational manner. (5008C30)
- those things which are considered to be at any given time survival characteristics. A
survival action is a moral action and those things are considered immoral which are
considered contrasurvival. (SH Spec 62, 6110C04)
- an arbitrary code of conduct not necessarily related to reason. (Scn 8-8008, p. 100)