Hobbes is far from the only one to assimilate moral wrong to violations of custom like picking your nose in public, or setting the table with the silver uncommonly arranged - though he departs from this incipient naturalistic relarivism in providing his contract theory to found justice in a universalist manner, but not small morals.
Maggie's mother's spontaneous assimilation of morals to custom is not thus qualified.
The Mill on the Floss, The Final Rescue, Chapter 3.
This is quite different from assimilation of moral wrong with getting a calculation, translation, or fact wrong, to which others subscribe.
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