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Adam Smith wrote the following in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments:"

In the practice of the other virtues, our conduct should rather be directed by a certain idea of propriety, by a certain taste for a particular tenor of conduct, than by any regard to a precise maxim or foundation of the rule, more than the rule itself."

Do you think that Adam Smith adhered to positive law as his ethical standard?Was he a moral relativist? What would his ethical standard be on violating the law?