I think moral progress is about more sensitive, and more, or at least averagely, persuasive, morality impressing itself over time. Suffering-in-silence never changed anything. But if at least one aspect of progress is leading toward reason and rationality, moral progress can be built on top of that,, because minorities can then make a reasoned case in a way that doesn’t depend on force of numbers or any other kind of force.
OK, this is fair in the case of a morality issue having the possibility of being persuasive. In the case of instrumental rather than terminal values, for example, when terminal values are the same. But when moral values are just different, there is no persuading that can be done. Aside from persuasion along the lines I made in my post.
I think moral progress is about more sensitive, and more, or at least averagely, persuasive, morality impressing itself over time. Suffering-in-silence never changed anything. But if at least one aspect of progress is leading toward reason and rationality, moral progress can be built on top of that,, because minorities can then make a reasoned case in a way that doesn’t depend on force of numbers or any other kind of force.
OK, this is fair in the case of a morality issue having the possibility of being persuasive. In the case of instrumental rather than terminal values, for example, when terminal values are the same. But when moral values are just different, there is no persuading that can be done. Aside from persuasion along the lines I made in my post.
I think moral norms can be rearranged on the basis of rational norms.
What do you mean? (I’m not sure what is meant by ‘rearranged’ or ‘rational norm’.)
“if you are in favour of X, then to be consistent [rational norm], you should be in favour of Y”
Ah, OK, the sentence makes sense to me now.