minding one's own business' is a very important social virtue. (explain)
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We ought to mind our own business. This is generally regarded as a moral truism, as can be seen by considering how we rebuff what we take to be inappropriate utterances of it. The proper way for a person to resist a demand to mind her own business is not by saying that she does not have to do so, but that it is her business. One of the most interesting usages of the norm occurs as a response to moral criticism. Rather than denying blameworthiness, the person criticized denies the interlocutor’s standing to express blame. Such responses are frequently accepted as legitimate. Many of the affairs we are told to keep our noses out of have moral content. Sexual interactions, the cultivation of personal virtues and avoidance of personal vices, and the treatment of friends and family members all tend to be screened off from general interference. People who fail to mind their own business in such matters, or who misjudge what is their business, are themselves subject to moral criticism.