I’ve been guilty of this for a while, and not realized it. That “is this action morally wrong” question really struck me.
What, specifically, were you guilty of? And how does your new formulation solve the problem? Re-reading the OP doesn’t make this clear for me.
It seems like the talk of rationalization in the OP made you notice rationalization of a different kind in yourself. You would previously justify moral claims using reasoning that did not even appeal to your alleged premises. Now you associate this with Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points, because until now you didn’t notice the discrepancy. Postulating two different kinds of moral beliefs may solve this problem and certainly improves the situation in the sense that it allows you to give the real reasons behind some of your moral beliefs.
But it doesn’t begin to address the OP.
You appear to have separated out the part of your moral approach that you don’t understand yet, shoved it in a box and labelled it “sins”. Now if you intend to figure out the contents of the box or prove that it has such a small effect you can ignore it, then this seems like a perfectly good method of inquiry (one that resembles Feynman’s approach to quantum mechanics). But you appear to say that you still think the contents of the box come from a “Law” that exists “outside humanity”, and as yet I’ve seen you give no reason for continuing to believe this.
What, specifically, were you guilty of? And how does your new formulation solve the problem? Re-reading the OP doesn’t make this clear for me.
It seems like the talk of rationalization in the OP made you notice rationalization of a different kind in yourself. You would previously justify moral claims using reasoning that did not even appeal to your alleged premises. Now you associate this with Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points, because until now you didn’t notice the discrepancy. Postulating two different kinds of moral beliefs may solve this problem and certainly improves the situation in the sense that it allows you to give the real reasons behind some of your moral beliefs.
But it doesn’t begin to address the OP.
You appear to have separated out the part of your moral approach that you don’t understand yet, shoved it in a box and labelled it “sins”. Now if you intend to figure out the contents of the box or prove that it has such a small effect you can ignore it, then this seems like a perfectly good method of inquiry (one that resembles Feynman’s approach to quantum mechanics). But you appear to say that you still think the contents of the box come from a “Law” that exists “outside humanity”, and as yet I’ve seen you give no reason for continuing to believe this.