Now, Hart of course agrees that the characteristic importance attributed to moral standardscan be explained, in part, by the way in which compliance with them secures interests sharedby all alike (p.174). However, he resists incorporating any such relation to interests into hisspecification of the nature of moral standards, and he does so by appealing to the existence of norms which virtually everyone agrees count as moral, but which are disconnected fromenhancing the fulfilment, or preventing the impairment, of basic human interests. These moralnorms have the character of social taboos, or as Hart calls them, social vetoes, and he believesthat only a formalist analysis of the sort he offers can bring them squarely within the categoryof the moral where they evidently belong. Exhibit #1 here is the widespread prohibition onhomosexual conduct. As Hart puts it