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boycotting marriage, part two

I was think­ing about my pre­vi­ous boy­cotting mar­riage post some more, and I fig­ured out that this is a great chance to give a lit­tle ethics les­son on deon­tic ver­dicts. “Deon­tic” just means some­thing like “related to duties.” In this case, we’re inter­ested in moral duties, as opposed to legal duties, or some other kind.