CAUSAL AXIS OF MORAL BIASES (update) This weekend I spent working on the connect

CAUSAL AXIS OF MORAL BIASES

(update)

This weekend I spent working on the connection between COOPERATION and morality. Now I have to tie cooperation to REPRODUCTION and reproduction to morality. This really is pretty simple. It’s there between Boehm, Ridley and Haidt. Once I do that I have the full chain from memory, to thought, to reproduction, to cooperation, to extended cooperation, which yields the axial dimensions of ‘calculation’ and ‘reproduction’ and ‘cooperation’ and ‘population’. With those axis, I can demonstrate most (all) of human moral behavior.

I actually get pretty bored with just copying down citations. I know that’s good academic practice and labor, but it’s justificationism to me. Either something has explanatory power or not. Whether it’s justified isn’t something that usually troubles me. 🙂 A descriptive ethic does not need much justification. It’s purely explanatory. A prescriptive (normative) ethic, requires justification.

Not sure if many people get what that means. But it doesn’t say much for the chance we’d ever come up with a prescriptive set of ethics that wasn’t nonsense. 🙂

Although only my fellow critical rationalists will really grasp that.

My objective here, will be to articulate moral biases the way that we articulate cognitive biases. I think, if I can reduce all of the moral biases, via Haidt, to just that, it’ becomes pretty easy to articulate them. And if it’s easy to articulate them, and in turn, show that they are claims against property, then it will mean that I have converted all moral discourse into propertarian language.

And I am pretty sure then, that I can prove, that most political language is an attempt to use obscurantism to steal.

And that’s pretty interesting.