Yep. I’d still say that there’s something people often try to pull about universality though, imagining that what’s right for group X is right for all groups. The divide is usually not between humans and Babyeaters, but between humans who believe X and humans who believe not X. For example, if you took the two sides of the US culture war, red and blue tribe, and applied the categorical imperative, you’ll get red and blue norms, but they won’t be universal norms, but both groups would like to claim for various reasons that their norms are universal. This is something that the categorical imperative, as stated here, doesn’t really address and actually lets you get away with training to claim universality when you really mean “universal for this group of likeminded folks”.
Yes, I agree that it doesn’t solve all morality and provide the one true moral code. However, at least in my mind, it can be useful for working out which actions are acceptable within a certain narrow-ish group.
Yep. I’d still say that there’s something people often try to pull about universality though, imagining that what’s right for group X is right for all groups. The divide is usually not between humans and Babyeaters, but between humans who believe X and humans who believe not X. For example, if you took the two sides of the US culture war, red and blue tribe, and applied the categorical imperative, you’ll get red and blue norms, but they won’t be universal norms, but both groups would like to claim for various reasons that their norms are universal. This is something that the categorical imperative, as stated here, doesn’t really address and actually lets you get away with training to claim universality when you really mean “universal for this group of likeminded folks”.
Yes, I agree that it doesn’t solve all morality and provide the one true moral code. However, at least in my mind, it can be useful for working out which actions are acceptable within a certain narrow-ish group.