I find it really difficult to accept that hierarchy could ever ensure any kind of positive morality. It seems, on the contrary, that hierarchy is the mechanism most used by those who have selfishly gained power to achieve amoral, antisocial outcomes. Also, since when is the sacred "good"? There are some pretty massive assumptions here.
SonnyBoyScramble t1_ism2n1w wrote
Reply to Philip Kitcher argues that morality is a social technology designed to solve problems emerging from the fragility of human altruism. Morality can be evaluated objectively, but without assuming moral truths. The view makes sense against a Darwinian view of life, but it is not social Darwinism. by Ma3Ke4Li3
I find it really difficult to accept that hierarchy could ever ensure any kind of positive morality. It seems, on the contrary, that hierarchy is the mechanism most used by those who have selfishly gained power to achieve amoral, antisocial outcomes. Also, since when is the sacred "good"? There are some pretty massive assumptions here.