Discuss: Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, BK III, Part 1, section 1.

"..when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it," The purpose of this essay is to examine Hume's statement contained within the title and explore the possible interpretations and arguments of it. In order to do this I will first discuss the idea of this form of moral subjectivism, before …

…we live by a subjective code of survival that many follow in a similar fashion, but no two are exactly the same. To close then, while Hume appears to be close with his statement, it seems to be more of the case that when we pronounce any action or character to be vicious, we mean nothing by it but that we are less vicious, and those actions and characters are undesirable for our own existence.