(September 11, 2019 at 10:47 pm)Vince Wrote: because you won’t know if it is actually wrong without the justification.
You ever heard of moral dumbfounding? Our rational moral justification are post hoc justifications, that have very little to do with why we recognize some things are bad.
Quote:Also, these are obvious moral choices. Have you never had to think about a situation about what was right or wrong? A lot of moral choices can be difficult and the only way to have confidence that your choice is moral is to have a justification.
Not really. In the real world, in the sort moral dilemmas that affect real people, the situation is more a matter of persons inability to recognize their own intentions, not so much what’s right and wrong. They do things out of hatred and resentment but lie to themselves by believing it’s out of love, or for justice, etc...
A man takes our his disappointments in life on his wife or child, but imagines that it’s something his wife or kid did, rather than recognize his scapegoating.
It’s because people often prefer to lie to themselves, be in the dark that in the light.
If you ever had a love one who is a disappointing moral failure, the problem isn’t that they don’t know what’s right or wrong, but they seem incapable of living right, perhaps even prefer it, or think it’s what they deserve and belong, and suffer in the darkness as a result. Men are afraid of themselves, their condition that put them there, to have it exposed, and brought to where it’s revealed, that they rather stay and die in that condition than anything else.
The reality of morality is far different then one you think it is.
