Another generalization I’ve found useful is that moralizing is what happens specifically when you reach the end of people’s causal model of a situation but they still have leftover emotional charge to expend. I’ve noticed this internally as well.
I agree with this. I think this pattern has at least a bit of sense in it, since ethical heuristics/injunctions/etc are often used to mark places where [there may be large costs that are not obvious to the actor from their own inside view].
This seems neat! Just to clarify, do you mean something like “I’ve explained seemingly all currently available facts, but I haven’t fully discharged my emotions on this, so there must be something more I’m missing?”
Kind of, closer to ‘I’ve reached the limit of my intervention model but more must be done, so let’s tense our bodies together in displeasure to motivate shared action’
I think I get it better, please forgive the repeated checking, I just want to be sure I have it clear since I love thinking about how emotions shape cognition and habit.
My read is now “I have done all I can think of/feel I have the capacity for, but the problem still isn’t solved, and advocacy is the only option I see at this very moment, so that’s what I’ll do for now?”
Another generalization I’ve found useful is that moralizing is what happens specifically when you reach the end of people’s causal model of a situation but they still have leftover emotional charge to expend. I’ve noticed this internally as well.
I agree with this. I think this pattern has at least a bit of sense in it, since ethical heuristics/injunctions/etc are often used to mark places where [there may be large costs that are not obvious to the actor from their own inside view].
Yeah, it seems reasonable that part of what ethical injunctions are for is ‘this is where the tribal map of the world ends.’
I am not sure which part of the piece got you to comment this, but I am glad.
This comment clicked for me.
It’s the whole ‘and that’s bad’ that the pattern is made of as an energetic pattern of dismissal. I have issues with dismissal that I’m working on.
This seems neat! Just to clarify, do you mean something like “I’ve explained seemingly all currently available facts, but I haven’t fully discharged my emotions on this, so there must be something more I’m missing?”
Kind of, closer to ‘I’ve reached the limit of my intervention model but more must be done, so let’s tense our bodies together in displeasure to motivate shared action’
I think I get it better, please forgive the repeated checking, I just want to be sure I have it clear since I love thinking about how emotions shape cognition and habit.
My read is now “I have done all I can think of/feel I have the capacity for, but the problem still isn’t solved, and advocacy is the only option I see at this very moment, so that’s what I’ll do for now?”
right but without any conscious deliberation, the moral advocacy circuits just fire.