 Just as Bentham’s approach to normative language was allied to his empiricism and his utilitarianism, Hart’s approach to normative language was allied to his philosophical methodology, and to his views on the relation between law and morality. His methodological purpose was to elucidate human practices, and he wanted to defend a conceptual separation between law and morality—a distinction in kind between legal obligation and moral obligation (see Hart 2012, 239–240). The practice theory of rules attracted him as a tool for those purposes, because it offered a way of accounting for the normativity of law by pointing to forms of behaviour which could be described, and which did not (in his view) carry any moral baggage. In saying that people use normative language to display an attitude to regularities of behaviour, the theorist did not need to do moral philosophy, and did not need to make any moral evaluations of the practice being described. The theorist did not even need to ascribe any moral evaluations to the participants in the practice, since the fact that people use normative language to display an attitude is, Hart considered, consistent with their having various moral views or none at all.