Why do people create entire moral theories around single human instincts?
We have an instinct to punish bad people, that was acquired through throughout our evolutionary history living in social groups. Why? because it lead to good consequences for the genes that expressed it. The result is that retribution is now a good on its own because it feels good. Leaning into that as a single guiding moral principal is just another kind of narrow hedonism. A moral theory needs to account for the balance of all kinds of positive and negative experiences.
I'm a sugar-fat-and-salt-ist, I like consuming those 3 things together, and it has become my guiding moral framework. I believe that consuming those things myself is morally praiseworthy.
We have an instinct to punish bad people, that was acquired through throughout our evolutionary history living in social groups. Why? because it lead to good consequences for the genes that expressed it. The result is that retribution is now a good on its own because it feels good. Leaning into that as a single guiding moral principal is just another kind of narrow hedonism. A moral theory needs to account for the balance of all kinds of positive and negative experiences.
I'm a sugar-fat-and-salt-ist, I like consuming those 3 things together, and it has become my guiding moral framework. I believe that consuming those things myself is morally praiseworthy.