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.
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Damn, so are you suggesting that future moral states will appear less moral because in the the future, an increased ability to appreciate consequences motivates cold behavior?
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I think that moral emotions measure the difference of a behavior to your primary norms, which are beliefs without priors. Emotions are reflexes that disappear once you have full models of consequences.
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