ve important social or political consequences, but we do not take this involvement as demonstrating his moral conviction” (25). For example, if a man would say “I hate homosexuals” that would be considered as his personal emotion because he gives no justified reason for his statement aside from pure fear or inferiority. Yet he is still entitled to his own opinion under the first amendment. If the same man would also give a reason for his prejudice such as “ I hate homosexuals, because I'm afraid they might do something to me” it is his own justifiable reason but it is only justified to him and not to anyone else. Hence, making his moral opinion only his own and not societies moral opinion and his moral position is wrong which must be rejected. Moral position cannot be based on the beliefs of others. By relying on other’s moral position a person shows that he doesn’t have his own views and values on the subject, and therefore his or her position is unjustified. It is a form of the advice we are given by others of "be a leader and not a follower." For example if I say that I don’t like Russian people because no body else likes them. That statement would not be a justifiable argument for the sake of morality, it would just be a reason for myself, which lack supporting evidence. It would just show that I don’t have or formed my own opinion, and therefore I cannot give a good enough reason to prove my position, hence making my position not a moral one, but rather a personal one, which must be rejected.In order to prove that something is a moral position a person has to believe and not contradict on his position. Dworkin says that even if you give reasons to justify your position, even if this reason is true, but you don’t show that this is an interest to you, then the others will not want to accept this as your moral position.According to Ronald Dworkin, none of the mentioned ...
