The Appropriate Moral Grammar of Each Individual

The best case for a shared set of norms at the level of what is acquired by each individual isn't in free speech, he says. The kind of pre-political normative structures that go to behaviors as we govern in criminal law or in contract law are more basic than those found in institutions like universities and courts. "I want to draw a distinction between the acquired moral grammar of each individual and what we're calling universal moral grammar," writes David Frum.