I’ll be interested to see what your metamorality is. The one thing that I think has been missing so far from the discussion is the question that without some metamorality, what language do we have to condemn someone else who chooses a different morality from ours? Obviously you can’t argue morality into a rock, but we’re not trying to do that, only argue it into another human who shares fundamentally similar architecture, but not necessarily morality.
Moreover, to say that one can abandon a metamorality without affecting one’s underlying morality doesn’t imply that society as a whole can ditch a particular metamorality (eg Judeo-Christian worldviews) and still expect the next generation’s morality to stay unchanged. If you explicitly reject any metamorality, why should your children bother to listen to what you say anyway? Isn’t their morality just as good as yours?
It may be possible that religious metamorality serve as a basis to inculcate a particular set of moral teachings, which only then allows the original metamorality to be abandoned. eg It causes at least some of the population to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, when they otherwise might not have done the right thing at all.
I’ll be interested to see what your metamorality is. The one thing that I think has been missing so far from the discussion is the question that without some metamorality, what language do we have to condemn someone else who chooses a different morality from ours? Obviously you can’t argue morality into a rock, but we’re not trying to do that, only argue it into another human who shares fundamentally similar architecture, but not necessarily morality.
Moreover, to say that one can abandon a metamorality without affecting one’s underlying morality doesn’t imply that society as a whole can ditch a particular metamorality (eg Judeo-Christian worldviews) and still expect the next generation’s morality to stay unchanged. If you explicitly reject any metamorality, why should your children bother to listen to what you say anyway? Isn’t their morality just as good as yours?
It may be possible that religious metamorality serve as a basis to inculcate a particular set of moral teachings, which only then allows the original metamorality to be abandoned. eg It causes at least some of the population to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, when they otherwise might not have done the right thing at all.