[Serious] Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Yes, if murder is a moral imperative in world b (I’m assuming the ‘murder’ has the same definition in both worlds).

No, if murder is equally morally wrong in both worlds (same caveat).

Boru

I can see a possible world where murder is a moral imperative for the creatures within it.  I don't even know that we have to go to our imaginary world to make that one stick.  For me, though, the answer would be no in both cases.  I think that our moral responsibilities must follow us wherever we are if they objectively refer to us.  I see it as a change of venue, I suppose.

I’m not sure how you can have a moral responsibility to a possible world with radically different moral strictures from yours. I agree that you carry your own moral responsibilities with you, but that’s not really the same thing. In order to be morally responsible to a world that has radically different morals from your own, it seems like you’d have to abrogate your moral responsibilities.

Boru