In an entertaining essay [HT: Dailynous] in a recent issue of Aeon (21 June 2024), “Moral progress is annoying,” Daniel Kelly and Evan Westra (both philosophers at Purdue University in Indiana) diagnose and invite us to ignore the so-called ‘eyeroll heuristic’ as an impediment to moral progress. This heuristic they summarize as “if it’s preachy and annoying, ignore it it.” Let me quote them:
On Norm-Engineering a Moral Future.
On Norm-Engineering a Moral Future.
On Norm-Engineering a Moral Future.
In an entertaining essay [HT: Dailynous] in a recent issue of Aeon (21 June 2024), “Moral progress is annoying,” Daniel Kelly and Evan Westra (both philosophers at Purdue University in Indiana) diagnose and invite us to ignore the so-called ‘eyeroll heuristic’ as an impediment to moral progress. This heuristic they summarize as “if it’s preachy and annoying, ignore it it.” Let me quote them: