I find myself unsure what the author thinks moral opinions are for. Or possibly about what they think truth is for.
Is gravity a good thing or a bad thing, or does it depend, and if so on what? Should there be more gravity, or less, or different types of gravity, or does it depend, and if so on what? These questions matter only to the extent that I can influence gravity. There’s no point to having a moral opinion about gravity unless I can influence gravity.
And learning truths about gravity increases the likelihood that I will be able to influence gravity.
As I learn more, I have more need for moral opinions… or, at least, my moral opinions have more effect on the world.
Perhaps, i missed to convey the context or atleast the implicit inferences i made out of the parts before. The basic idea, I inferred is that moral opinions are useful educated heuristics for dire, time-crunched situations one makes beforehand to save the time required for decision-making. I can think of a situation in HPMOR where Harry wants to tell Dumbledore, there are things that are exactly worth thinking about(even though they are horrible) beforehand, because there wouldn’t be time to think when they happen. Dumbledore prefers and/or recommends the opposite, not think, but act whatever your natural instincts say. And from that context, i can see the point he makes. Besides, i would be surprised if there were no theists who used to attribute things falling down to god, started to atleast make complicated explanations about gravity after Newton’s Discovery.
I must say that, I am tempted to agree with the last part though. i.e: the more I learn, the more effect my moral opinions have on the world. If anything, I would say it is immoral to fail to form moral opinions the more truth you learn about the world.
I find myself unsure what the author thinks moral opinions are for.
Or possibly about what they think truth is for.
Is gravity a good thing or a bad thing, or does it depend, and if so on what? Should there be more gravity, or less, or different types of gravity, or does it depend, and if so on what? These questions matter only to the extent that I can influence gravity. There’s no point to having a moral opinion about gravity unless I can influence gravity.
And learning truths about gravity increases the likelihood that I will be able to influence gravity.
As I learn more, I have more need for moral opinions… or, at least, my moral opinions have more effect on the world.
Perhaps, i missed to convey the context or atleast the implicit inferences i made out of the parts before. The basic idea, I inferred is that moral opinions are useful educated heuristics for dire, time-crunched situations one makes beforehand to save the time required for decision-making. I can think of a situation in HPMOR where Harry wants to tell Dumbledore, there are things that are exactly worth thinking about(even though they are horrible) beforehand, because there wouldn’t be time to think when they happen. Dumbledore prefers and/or recommends the opposite, not think, but act whatever your natural instincts say. And from that context, i can see the point he makes. Besides, i would be surprised if there were no theists who used to attribute things falling down to god, started to atleast make complicated explanations about gravity after Newton’s Discovery.
I must say that, I am tempted to agree with the last part though. i.e: the more I learn, the more effect my moral opinions have on the world. If anything, I would say it is immoral to fail to form moral opinions the more truth you learn about the world.