“I don’t care what future people think of my morality, I just care what’s moral by the arbitrary standards of the time I live in.”
As a moral super-anti-realist (“Morality is a product of evolutionary game theory shaping our brains plus arbitrary social input”) this doesn’t represent my view.
I care about morality the same way I care about aesthetics: “I guess brutalism, rock music and prosocial behaviour are just what my brain happens to be fond of, I should go experience those if I want to be happy.” I think this is heavily influenced by the standards of the time, but not exactly equal to those standards, probably because brains are noisy machines that don’t learn standards perfectly. For instance, I happen to think jaywalking is not immoral so I do it without regard for how local standards view jaywalking.
Concisely, I’d phrase it as “I don’t care what future people think of my morality, I just care what’s moral by the arbitrary standards of my own brain.”
As a moral super-anti-realist (“Morality is a product of evolutionary game theory shaping our brains plus arbitrary social input”) this doesn’t represent my view.
I care about morality the same way I care about aesthetics: “I guess brutalism, rock music and prosocial behaviour are just what my brain happens to be fond of, I should go experience those if I want to be happy.” I think this is heavily influenced by the standards of the time, but not exactly equal to those standards, probably because brains are noisy machines that don’t learn standards perfectly. For instance, I happen to think jaywalking is not immoral so I do it without regard for how local standards view jaywalking.
Concisely, I’d phrase it as “I don’t care what future people think of my morality, I just care what’s moral by the arbitrary standards of my own brain.”