So many things are arbitrarily framed in a moral context that it seems hard to agree or disagree with this thesis. For instance, we typically think of gang sho

So many things are arbitrarily framed in a moral context that it seems hard to agree or disagree with this thesis. For instance, we typically think of gang shootings as violence caused by greed or desire for power. But it's also common to frame it as a moral issue, such as "they shouldn't have been operating in my territory without paying" or "they were going to double-cross me". Why do we take the moral explanation at face value? Just because the ostensible reason is morality doesn't mean that's the real reason. They may have already decided what they were going to do, and rationalized it with morality later.