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Ethics is intended to help make decisions. It does this by pointing to theories that provide an argument for the recommended procedure. One can ask whether the maxim of „do unto others as you would have done unto you” refers to any act or is a hypernorm providing guidelines for other decisions. The practice of individual behavior is institutionally nested, as is the status of the norm „do not impose upon the others what is unpleasant to you”, and in addition – with reciprocity, ergo primum non nocere.