Better minds that I have talked about the quest for purpose in the absense of faith and I choose deliberately not to endorse any particular moral goal in this piece.
But you did. You said that people should fight against the moral impulse to do good to strangers at their own expense, and strive to ignore their moral revulsion at ill-treating strangers.
selfish utilitarianism (is this really any different from hedonism?) is a good a goal as any although it’s not one I personally choose as a moral end goal.
You are advocating it, but not choosing to follow it yourself?
The first person who understood nutrition didn’t start on a perfect diet from day 1. Dieting is hard and we’re still not very much closer to figuring out effective strategies of subverting our harmful evolutionary preferences. Rebasing ethics is at least as difficult so have some patience while it gets figured out.
I think I agree that morality might need tweaking from what evolution gave us. With dieting, the aim is to eat in a healthier way. What would the aim be with adjusting morality?
But you did. You said that people should fight against the moral impulse to do good to strangers at their own expense, and strive to ignore their moral revulsion at ill-treating strangers.
You are advocating it, but not choosing to follow it yourself?
The first person who understood nutrition didn’t start on a perfect diet from day 1. Dieting is hard and we’re still not very much closer to figuring out effective strategies of subverting our harmful evolutionary preferences. Rebasing ethics is at least as difficult so have some patience while it gets figured out.
I think I agree that morality might need tweaking from what evolution gave us. With dieting, the aim is to eat in a healthier way. What would the aim be with adjusting morality?