I was kind of hoping this post would be more about moral authority as it actually exists in our morally-neutral universe. For having subjectivism in the title, it was actually all about objectivism.
I’m reminded of that aphorism about the guy writing a book on magic, and he’d get asked if it was about “real magic.” And he’d have to say no, stage magic, because real magic, to the questioner, means something not real, while the sort of magic that can really be done is not real magic.
How does someone whose moral judgment you trust actually get that trust, in the real world? It’s okay if this looks more like “stage magic” than “real magic.”
I was kind of hoping this post would be more about moral authority as it actually exists in our morally-neutral universe. For having subjectivism in the title, it was actually all about objectivism.
I’m reminded of that aphorism about the guy writing a book on magic, and he’d get asked if it was about “real magic.” And he’d have to say no, stage magic, because real magic, to the questioner, means something not real, while the sort of magic that can really be done is not real magic.
How does someone whose moral judgment you trust actually get that trust, in the real world? It’s okay if this looks more like “stage magic” than “real magic.”