Standard language ideology is strongly connected with the concepts of linguistic purism and prescriptivism. Hare originally proposed prescriptivism as a kind of amendment to emotivism. Other popular topics include the descriptivism/prescriptivism debate, and linguistics-related news items. A close cousin of emotivism, developed by R. M. Hare, is called universal prescriptivism. This makes prescriptivism a universalist form of non-cognitivism. Prescriptivism can fit the theist idea of morality as obedience towards god. Arguments for prescriptivism focus on the "function" of normative statements. A second issue with prescriptivism is that it tends to explicitly devalue non-standard dialects. The Croatian avoidance of "da li" is largely an expression of prescriptivism. Government bureaucracy tends toward prescriptivism as a means of enforcing functional continuity. Prescriptivism is also supported by the actual way of speaking. Prescriptivism has been widely criticized and has few adherents today.