“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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No extant moral framework lets you even formulate the Q “how moral should I be?”, much less gives a useful answer. The culture war is partly a consequence of bad strategies for managing moral anxiety. “What’s the least-effort trick for feeling and looking morally adequate?”
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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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