Moral Progress and the Problem of Slavery
Zealots at the Gate
The Importance of Moral Intuitions
"We can be wrong about the things that we feel most deeply and resolutely," he says. "It's not chance that humans started to come to a new conclusion about the immorality of slavery at the same time that they were, had to discover that you can use fossil fuels to create steam to move stuff." The intensity with which we feel them makes us just assume like it has to be the case that these are true for all human beings, writes David Frum.
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