Or is not teaching moral uncertainty some kind of Chesterton’s Fence, and teaching it widely would make the world even worse off on expectation?
I expect it is this. General moral uncertainty has all kinds of problems in expectation, like:
It ruins morality as a coordination mechanism among the group.
It weakens moral conviction in the individual, which is super bad from the perspective of people who believe there are direct consequences for a lack of conviction (like Hell).
It creates space for different and possibly weird moralities to arise; I don’t know of any moral systems that think it is a good thing to be a member of a different moral system, so I expect all the current moral systems to agree on this one.
I feel like the first bullet point is the real driving force behind the problems it would prevent, anyhow. Moral uncertainty doesn’t cause people to do good things; it keeps them from doing good things (that are different from other groups’ definitions of good things).
I expect it is this. General moral uncertainty has all kinds of problems in expectation, like:
It ruins morality as a coordination mechanism among the group.
It weakens moral conviction in the individual, which is super bad from the perspective of people who believe there are direct consequences for a lack of conviction (like Hell).
It creates space for different and possibly weird moralities to arise; I don’t know of any moral systems that think it is a good thing to be a member of a different moral system, so I expect all the current moral systems to agree on this one.
I feel like the first bullet point is the real driving force behind the problems it would prevent, anyhow. Moral uncertainty doesn’t cause people to do good things; it keeps them from doing good things (that are different from other groups’ definitions of good things).