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moralism is not some specific set of morals, but the idea that they should be imposed via whatever means

• xpe 3y ago
  According to a common definition, moralism involves judgment, but not necessarily imposition. From Wikipedia: > The term has been used in a pejorative sense to describe the attitude of "being overly concerned with making moral judgments or being illiberal in the judgments one makes". There is also the 19th century Moralism movement/philosophy, which may have inspired the more general sense of the word, but I’m not sure. I think we should all step back and question whether we all even mean the same thing by the word “imposition”. When I think about imposition, I can see how people could interpret that to mean a wide range of things, including social pressure, religious rules, as well as the force of law. This is why (above) I interpret moralism (the general term) as a kind of judgment, but not necessarily an imposition of rules or punishments.