After a class discussion on moral evaluations, which characteristic identified by the class would lead the instructor to determine that the discussion has been effective?

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Moral evaluations have distinctive characteristics: the evaluations are ultimate, having a preemptive quality, meaning that other values or human ends cannot, as a rule, override them; they possess universality or reflect a standpoint that applies to everyone, such that everyone in principle ought to be able to make and understand, even if some individuals, in fact, do not; moral evaluations avoid giving a special place to a person's own welfare, having a focus that keeps others in view, or at least considers one's own welfare on a par with that of others. Moral evaluations are prescriptive-proscriptive beliefs that have certain characteristics separating them from other evaluations including matters of taste.

After a Class Discussion on Moral Evaluations, Which Characteristic Identified