Well, psychopaths don’t seem to care about morality so much. So we can at least point to morality as a particular cluster among things people care about.
That’s just it; it’s not clear to me that we can, on this account.
Sure, there are things within morality that some people care about and other people don’t. Caring about video games is an aspect of morality, for example, and some people don’t care about video games. Caring about the happiness of other people is an aspect of morality, and some people (e.g., psychopaths) don’t care about that. And so on. But the things that they care about instead are also parts of morality, on this account.
But, OK, perhaps there’s some kind of moral hierarchy on this account. Perhaps it’s not possible to “be moral” on this account without, for example, caring about the happiness of other people… perhaps that’s necessary, though not sufficient.
In which case “I happen to care about being moral” means that I happen to care about a critical subset of the important things, as opposed to not caring about those things.
Well, psychopaths don’t seem to care about morality so much. So we can at least point to morality as a particular cluster among things people care about.
That’s just it; it’s not clear to me that we can, on this account.
Sure, there are things within morality that some people care about and other people don’t. Caring about video games is an aspect of morality, for example, and some people don’t care about video games. Caring about the happiness of other people is an aspect of morality, and some people (e.g., psychopaths) don’t care about that. And so on. But the things that they care about instead are also parts of morality, on this account.
But, OK, perhaps there’s some kind of moral hierarchy on this account. Perhaps it’s not possible to “be moral” on this account without, for example, caring about the happiness of other people… perhaps that’s necessary, though not sufficient.
In which case “I happen to care about being moral” means that I happen to care about a critical subset of the important things, as opposed to not caring about those things.
OK, fair enough. I can accept that.