RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
October 15, 2021 at 7:24 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2021 at 8:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"Just return the wallet" may be closer to moral deontology than moral intuition. Moral intuition would be your answer to the question "what if this money was dirty, or would be used for something terrible, should it be returned?" We seize druglords shit all the time, despite telling our children to just return the wallet. The heuristic works because it applies to most cases.
As for outcomes beyond our control, here again, we may have a moral intuition about that. Are we morally responsible for what we don't know and have no control over. Alot of people would say no. In that particular case, it's not so much that not trusting our moral intuitions would lead to paralysis as we have a moral intuition that absolves us of personal responsibility in those circumstances for whatever a person may do with the money, while maintaining a personal responsibility on our end, not to steal it.
Moral intuition should not be taken to mean our best guesses in uncertain situations or with limited information. The term was used to denote something that's contended to be a fact, but perhaps not a natural fact..and this again, is novel use of the term natural.
As for outcomes beyond our control, here again, we may have a moral intuition about that. Are we morally responsible for what we don't know and have no control over. Alot of people would say no. In that particular case, it's not so much that not trusting our moral intuitions would lead to paralysis as we have a moral intuition that absolves us of personal responsibility in those circumstances for whatever a person may do with the money, while maintaining a personal responsibility on our end, not to steal it.
Moral intuition should not be taken to mean our best guesses in uncertain situations or with limited information. The term was used to denote something that's contended to be a fact, but perhaps not a natural fact..and this again, is novel use of the term natural.
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