A Simple Case for Studying Morals - by Gabe

Morals is a complicated topic. So complicated that explanations for why it matters are themselves complicated. I have found that a result, many have become alienated from morals, where they can seem to care enough to study them. This leads to memes like this one: In this article, I’ll try to make a simple case for why we should study morals. More than any complex argument, I believe the easiest way to see why it is worth to study morals is its track record. We performed many moral aberrations in the past. We now understood them to be bad. This understanding is not purely psychological, it has real-world consequences. When what we identify as moral aberrations visibly happens, we publicly condemn them. When we have enough resources, we try to stop them from happening. In the past, there were people who described moral aberrations in a way that was not the norm at their time, but was prescient of our current understanding. Those people usually studied morals. Bartolomé de las Casas is an

Morals is a complicated topic. So complicated that explanations for why it matters are themselves complicated. I have found that a result, many have become alienated from morals, where they can seem to care enough to study them. This leads to memes like this one: In this article, I’ll try to make a simple case for why we should study morals. More than any complex argument, I believe the easiest way to see why it is worth to study morals is its track record. We performed many moral aberrations in the past. We now understood them to be bad. This understanding is not purely psychological, it has