Ethical arguments are often shorthand that skip the steps of observing humans and their emotions and taking some of them as givens. An ethical framework does t

Ethical arguments are often shorthand that skip the steps of observing humans and their emotions and taking some of them as givens. An ethical framework does the epistemological work of observing what humans are and how they feel and behave in various situations and forming generalizations that hopefully aren't too wrong. This is why arguing ethics across ethical frameworks is so frustrating; the semantics aren't compatible enough.