It rejects the aspiration of political liberalism to neutrality among conceptions of morality while simultaneously retaining its spirit by sectioning off socialmorality from other normative domains.
However, he claimed the direction of original trial judge Lord Nimmo Smith to the jury that it was not a court of "morality or social attitude" meant that Mitchell's "habit" would not feature in their final decision.
The debate now raging in the Diet and within political parties, is not just about how to finance the costs of old age social programs, but also about the morality of allowing lavish spending on old people to create a burden for their children and grandchildren.