Well stated. And I would further add that there are issues with significant minority interests that staunchly disagree with majority opinion. Take the debates on homosexual marriage or abortion. The various sides have such different viewpoints that there isn’t a common ground where any agreeably objective position can be reached. The “we all agree mass murder is wrong” is a cop out, because it implies all moral questions are that black and white. And even then, if it’s such a universal moral, why does it happen in the first place? In the brain based morality model, I can say Dennis Rader’s just a substantially different brain. With universal morality, you’re stuck with the problem of people knowing something is wrong, but doing it anyway.
Well stated. And I would further add that there are issues with significant minority interests that staunchly disagree with majority opinion. Take the debates on homosexual marriage or abortion. The various sides have such different viewpoints that there isn’t a common ground where any agreeably objective position can be reached. The “we all agree mass murder is wrong” is a cop out, because it implies all moral questions are that black and white. And even then, if it’s such a universal moral, why does it happen in the first place? In the brain based morality model, I can say Dennis Rader’s just a substantially different brain. With universal morality, you’re stuck with the problem of people knowing something is wrong, but doing it anyway.