I completely agree: asking people to discard moral emotions is rather like asking rational agents to discard top goals!
Wikipedia says that “body-counts of modern witch-hunts by far exceed those of early-modern witch-hunting”, referencing: Behringer, Wolfgang 2004: Witches and Witch-hunts. A global History. Cambridge: Polity Press.
My point being that our emotional empathy is already out of tune with social propriety, if you consider the social norms typical around the world and not just among rich, Western populations. Let alone the norms common in the West for most of its existence, and so perhaps again in the future.
I completely agree: asking people to discard moral emotions is rather like asking rational agents to discard top goals!
Wikipedia says that “body-counts of modern witch-hunts by far exceed those of early-modern witch-hunting”, referencing: Behringer, Wolfgang 2004: Witches and Witch-hunts. A global History. Cambridge: Polity Press.
My point being that our emotional empathy is already out of tune with social propriety, if you consider the social norms typical around the world and not just among rich, Western populations. Let alone the norms common in the West for most of its existence, and so perhaps again in the future.