Has sermonizing ever in history moved the mean on virtues, for a group larger than a few hundred, for more than 1 generation? I’m inclined to think any such effect is transient. Persistent effects can be attributed to tech making it easier to do a right thing than a wrong thing.
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Ehh, “paradigm shifts” as Kuhn said. They aren’t really sudden, or at least they build up for decades or centuries, it just seems sudden when an old paradigm falls out of solution. Then there’s reaction and/or consolidation and the process starts again.
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Scientific paradigm shifts aren’t moral evolutions though We just go from being classical assholes to quantum relativistic assholes.
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