Things that are morally abhorrent are not necessarily moral errors. For example I can find wildlife suffering morally abhorrent but there’s obviously no moral errors or any kind of errors being committed there. Given that the dictionary defines abhorrent as “inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant” I think “I find X morally abhorrent” just means “my moral system considers X to be very wrong or to have very low value.”
That’s one way for my comment to be wrong, as in “Systematic recurrence of preventable epistemic errors is morally abhorrent.”
When I was writing the comment, I was thinking of another way it’s wrong: given morality vs. axiology distinction, and distinction between belief and disclosure of that belief, it might well be the case that it’s a useful moral principle to avoid declaring beliefs about what others think, especially when those others disagree with the declarations. In that case it’s a violation of this principle, a moral wrong, to declare such beliefs. (A principle like this gets in the way of honesty, so promoting it is contentious and shouldn’t be an implicit background assumption. And the distinction between belief and its declaration was not clearly made in the above discussion.)
Things that are morally abhorrent are not necessarily moral errors. For example I can find wildlife suffering morally abhorrent but there’s obviously no moral errors or any kind of errors being committed there. Given that the dictionary defines abhorrent as “inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant” I think “I find X morally abhorrent” just means “my moral system considers X to be very wrong or to have very low value.”
That’s one way for my comment to be wrong, as in “Systematic recurrence of preventable epistemic errors is morally abhorrent.”
When I was writing the comment, I was thinking of another way it’s wrong: given morality vs. axiology distinction, and distinction between belief and disclosure of that belief, it might well be the case that it’s a useful moral principle to avoid declaring beliefs about what others think, especially when those others disagree with the declarations. In that case it’s a violation of this principle, a moral wrong, to declare such beliefs. (A principle like this gets in the way of honesty, so promoting it is contentious and shouldn’t be an implicit background assumption. And the distinction between belief and its declaration was not clearly made in the above discussion.)