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Condemnation has ethical force only when the standard survives a change of identity. Moral judgment becomes unreliable when outrage rises or falls according to religion, political party, nationality, race, ideology, profession, or personal allegiance. Facts properly change conclusions. Evidence properly changes conclusions. Circumstances properly change conclusions. The rule used to evaluate those facts must remain recognizable from one case to the next. Once affiliation begi

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