My general take is that, to avoid debilitating inner conflict, we have no choice BUT to trust our moral intuitions.
To use a classic example, you find a wallet stuffed with cash in the street. Your moral intuition tells you to contact the owner and return the wallet. But what if the owner turns out to be a paedo who drugs and rapes children? What if he beats his wife? What if she won the money betting on dog fights? Not trusting an intuitive morality seems as if it would lead to a paralysis of action, based on the gnawing doubt that any action you take might have immoral consequences or support a non-moral outcome that is beyond your control.
Just return the wallet.
Boru
To use a classic example, you find a wallet stuffed with cash in the street. Your moral intuition tells you to contact the owner and return the wallet. But what if the owner turns out to be a paedo who drugs and rapes children? What if he beats his wife? What if she won the money betting on dog fights? Not trusting an intuitive morality seems as if it would lead to a paralysis of action, based on the gnawing doubt that any action you take might have immoral consequences or support a non-moral outcome that is beyond your control.
Just return the wallet.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
