One must not conceive of morality as something extremely general, which becomes determinate only insofar as is necessary. On the contrary, it is a set of very definite rules, like so many molds, with firm contours into which we are forced to fit our actions. We do not have to construct these rules at the point when we must act, by deducing them from higher principles. They are already made, they exist, live and function all around us. They are moral reality in its concrete form... This shows, in effect, that the role of morality is, first and foremost, to regulate action, to fix it, to eliminate the element of individual arbitrariness.
Emile Durkeim, Moral Education