The arc of the moral universe is basically a random walk.
Occasionally a tech advance makes it slightly easier to be nice and slightly more pointless to be nasty. We then congratulate ourselves for having “evolved.”
Can’t think of any, but controlling for abundance created by technology and scientific knowledge I can detect no real net moral “progress” in history. People in 500BC seem about as likely to be good/bad as today.
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I’m not saying they weren’t different. I’m saying moral progress doesn’t account for any of it. “Moral progress” is just post-hoc theorizing of nicer behavior enabled by more tech/knowledge abundance
Well, sure, if scarcity leads to competition and conflict, then abundance leads to, well, Cmdr Riker getting it on with space babes on utopian planets, so it becomes a correlation / causation thang. Even private property and financial markets can then be seen as moral “goods”.