Principled vs. pragmatic morality is definitely closer to a spectrum than a dichotomy.
“It’s never “morality about a point-mass”, it’s about choices within some constraints”—Is it? Some people do make moral claims like, “Murder is unconditionally wrong”. Perhaps I don’t understand what you are saying clearly.
“Murder is unconditionally wrong” puts the human choices under constraints into the definition of murder (or lack thereof—often they mean “killing that I object to”). There’s not much value in the abstraction, as all the details come back when you dig in.
Principled vs. pragmatic morality is definitely closer to a spectrum than a dichotomy.
“It’s never “morality about a point-mass”, it’s about choices within some constraints”—Is it? Some people do make moral claims like, “Murder is unconditionally wrong”. Perhaps I don’t understand what you are saying clearly.
“Murder is unconditionally wrong” puts the human choices under constraints into the definition of murder (or lack thereof—often they mean “killing that I object to”). There’s not much value in the abstraction, as all the details come back when you dig in.