'H L A Hart mentions as a cause of division and hesitation over the issues of sexual morality 'in our own time' the free discussion of it 'in the light of the discoveries of anthropology and psychology'. The exceptional freedom of discussion must have other roots, for enough anthropology and psychology to show up the relativity of moral codes was known to Herodotus, and again to seventeenth-century Europe, let alone to the Victorians.'
He is right about this: the relativity of moral codes, itself, does not cause a free discussion of them, which has other roots.
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