You can believe that what you do or did was unethical, which doesn’t need to have anything to do with conflict resolution.
It does relate to conflict resolution. Being motivated by ethics is useful for avoiding conflict, so it’s useful for people to be able to evaluate the ethics of their own hypothetical actions. But there are lots of considerations for people to take into account when chosing actions, so this does not mean that someone will never take actions that they concluded had the drawback of being unethical. Being able to reason about the ethics of actions you’ve already taken is additionally useful insofar as it correlates with how others are likely to see it, which can inform whether it is a good idea to hide information about your actions, be ready to try to make amends, defend yourself from retribution, etc.
Beliefs are not perceptions.
If there is some objective moral truth that common moral intuitions are heavily correlated with, there must be some mechanism by which they ended up correlated. Your reply to Karl makes it sound like you deny that anyone ever perceives anything other than perception itself, which isn’t how anyone else uses the word perceive.
It doesn’t mean that we are necessarily or fully motivated to be ethical.
Yes, but if no one was at all motivated by ethics, then ethical reasoning would not be useful for people to engage in, and no one would. The fact that ethics is a powerful force in society is central to why people bother studying it. This does not imply that everyone is motivated by ethics, or that anyone is fully motivated by ethics.
It does relate to conflict resolution. Being motivated by ethics is useful for avoiding conflict, so it’s useful for people to be able to evaluate the ethics of their own hypothetical actions. But there are lots of considerations for people to take into account when chosing actions, so this does not mean that someone will never take actions that they concluded had the drawback of being unethical. Being able to reason about the ethics of actions you’ve already taken is additionally useful insofar as it correlates with how others are likely to see it, which can inform whether it is a good idea to hide information about your actions, be ready to try to make amends, defend yourself from retribution, etc.
If there is some objective moral truth that common moral intuitions are heavily correlated with, there must be some mechanism by which they ended up correlated. Your reply to Karl makes it sound like you deny that anyone ever perceives anything other than perception itself, which isn’t how anyone else uses the word perceive.
Yes, but if no one was at all motivated by ethics, then ethical reasoning would not be useful for people to engage in, and no one would. The fact that ethics is a powerful force in society is central to why people bother studying it. This does not imply that everyone is motivated by ethics, or that anyone is fully motivated by ethics.