Look at our public debates from the perspective of a historian 150 years into the future: must we position ourselves within the fray of ideas already smelling of obsolescence? The future remembers us as a confused sideshow of epistemologically handicapped lead poisoning victims.
Do you think that there is a unidirectional moral arrow through historical time?
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I actually do, it’s probably one of my more bizzare beliefs. But I see it more as we are increasing nuance. We are getting a higher resolution picture of morality. U?
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I think that within every given point you can construct a history of moral states that are increasingly inferior to your own, but if you extrapolate the morality that is likely going to exist in the future it will appear to be less moral to you than your perspective of today.
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