I’m confused. I’ll try to rephrase what you said, so that you can tell me whether I understood.
“You can change your morality. In fact, you do it all the time, when you are persuaded by arguments that appeal to other parts of your morality. So you may try to find the morality you really should have. But—“should”? That’s judged by your current morality, which you can’t expect to improve by changing it (you expect a particular change would improve it, but you can’t tell in what direction). Just like you can’t expect to win more by changing your probability estimate to win the lottery.
Moreover, while there is such a fact as “the number on your ticket matches the winning number”, there is no ultimate source of morality out there, no way to judge Morality_5542 without appealing to another morality. So not only you can’t jump to another morality, you also have to reason to want to: you’re not trying to guess some true morality.
Therefore, just keep whatever morality you happen to have, including your intuitions for changing it.”
Did I get this straight? If I did, it sounds a lot like a relativistic “There is no truth, so don’t try to convice me”—but there is indeed no truth, as in, no objective morality.
I’m confused. I’ll try to rephrase what you said, so that you can tell me whether I understood.
“You can change your morality. In fact, you do it all the time, when you are persuaded by arguments that appeal to other parts of your morality. So you may try to find the morality you really should have. But—“should”? That’s judged by your current morality, which you can’t expect to improve by changing it (you expect a particular change would improve it, but you can’t tell in what direction). Just like you can’t expect to win more by changing your probability estimate to win the lottery.
Moreover, while there is such a fact as “the number on your ticket matches the winning number”, there is no ultimate source of morality out there, no way to judge Morality_5542 without appealing to another morality. So not only you can’t jump to another morality, you also have to reason to want to: you’re not trying to guess some true morality.
Therefore, just keep whatever morality you happen to have, including your intuitions for changing it.”
Did I get this straight? If I did, it sounds a lot like a relativistic “There is no truth, so don’t try to convice me”—but there is indeed no truth, as in, no objective morality.