The metaphor was that you could, in principle, make rules and laws for literally any possible action, including living. Will you agree that one should not make fixed rules for literally all actions, but only for select high-negative-impact ones, using the right type of rule for the right action?
(Edited for explicit analogy.)
Basically, it’s not because you have a morality (hammer) that happens to be convenient for making laws and rules of interactions (balancing the table) that morality is necessarily the best and intended tool for making rules and that morality itself tells you what you should make laws about or that you even should make laws in the first place.
Moral rules and legal laws aren’t the same thing. Modern socities don’t legislate against adultery, although they may consider it against the moral rules.
If you are going to override a moral rule, (ie neither punish nor even disaprove of) an action, what would you override it in favour of? What would count more?
I would refuse to allow moral judgement on things which lie outside of the realm of appropriate morality. Modern societies don’t legislate against adultery because consensual sex is amoral. Using moral guidelines to determine which people are allowed to have consensual sex is like using a hammer to open a window.
I don’t see where I’ve implied that one would override a moral rule. What I’m saying is that most current moral systems are not good enough to even make rational rules about some types of actions in the first place, and that in the long run we would regret doing so after doing some metaethics.
Uncertainty and the lack of reliability of our own minds and decision systems are key points of the above.
(Edited for explicit analogy.)
Basically, it’s not because you have a morality (hammer) that happens to be convenient for making laws and rules of interactions (balancing the table) that morality is necessarily the best and intended tool for making rules and that morality itself tells you what you should make laws about or that you even should make laws in the first place.
Moral rules and legal laws aren’t the same thing. Modern socities don’t legislate against adultery, although they may consider it against the moral rules.
If you are going to override a moral rule, (ie neither punish nor even disaprove of) an action, what would you override it in favour of? What would count more?
I would refuse to allow moral judgement on things which lie outside of the realm of appropriate morality. Modern societies don’t legislate against adultery because consensual sex is amoral. Using moral guidelines to determine which people are allowed to have consensual sex is like using a hammer to open a window.
Oh, that was your concern. I has no bearing on what I was saying.
Can you provide an example of a moral rule that you believe might be/has been overridden, then?
I don’t see where I’ve implied that one would override a moral rule. What I’m saying is that most current moral systems are not good enough to even make rational rules about some types of actions in the first place, and that in the long run we would regret doing so after doing some metaethics.
Uncertainty and the lack of reliability of our own minds and decision systems are key points of the above.