“How moral do I need to be?” seems to be the main real-life moral question in the comfortable developed world. Both as a question of social perception, and as a problem of conscience/guilt. This leads to substantial anxiety, I think.https://twitter.com/JessieSunPsych/status/1168593223813455874 …
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As a meta-ethical matter, I think the answer is, "One should strive to be maximally moral," and it is a test of of a good moral framework that it lets you strive to do just that *without* implying extreme actions such as "give away all your material possessions."
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In other words, "maximally moral" implying extreme actions is a mark of a bad moral framework.
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I'm rather baffled you would say this, when I know you're familiar with Wilbur, who bases Boomeritis so thoroughly on Spiral Dynamics, in which morals ratchet between individualistic and collectivist systems of ethics, each giving a very precise answer to that Q.
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I’m not really familiar with spiral dynamics outside Boomeritis, and I haven’t read that in ~10 years. I remember it explaining “how should I/we be moral” but not “how moral should I/we be”. Did I miss or forget something?
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Dungeons and Dragons implicitly addresses this question with its alignment system!
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More seriously, I think there's a useful answer to be built if you have a well-developed concept of moral _locality_. Everybody thinks moral theories have to be uniform, though.
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There was a guy who made headlines maybe ~20 years ago because people were discussing whether he was "excessively moral." He donated most of his income and both kidneys. I remember being disturbed by the vitriol aimed at him. His kids were even teased on the playground!
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I wish I could remember enough details to find the old news stories via Google search. I believe there was even an extended write-up in one of the glossy magazines, like New York Magazine or something.
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No extant framework even has a coherent consistent definition of morality.
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Any framework that has a distinction between obligation and supererogation at least gives you a starting point.
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