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Ooh, interesting psych and ethical insights, thank you. Post-conventional moral development is a useful concept, it does help me to express some of the ethical ideas I want to talk about.

I definitely agree that people always do things for a reason, and that it is ethically worthwhile to put some thoughts into what those reasons might be. I think this may be an example of exactly the problem I was alluding to in the post, though; yes, it's important for people to think about why they do what they do, but also, some people, especially women, are already being constantly expected to justify all their choices about clothing and personal expression. If someone is currently in a situation where they're just going through life blithely not caring about the effects of their choices on other people, then yes, they need to be admonished to be more thoughtful. But if someone is currently desperately over-thinking everything because they're afraid of offending someone or breaching complicated standards of morality, then telling them to do that even more is counter-productive.