“Language can be at once descriptive and value-loaded in the case of what philosophers have come to call thick ethical concepts. Think of words such as ‘friendly’, ‘mean’, ‘aggressive’, ‘rude’, ‘impatient’, ‘brutal’ and so on, and notice how these terms evaluate behaviour positively or negatively at the same time as they describe it. They contrast with thin ethical concepts such as ‘right’ and ‘should’ and ‘ought’.”
https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-williams-moral-relativism-and-the-culture-wars
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