Why is someone who denies the coherent of moral progress defending someone who thinks moral regress has been happening for ~400 years? If moral drift is all there is, moral regress is no more coherent that moral progress.
Defending someone? I don't recalling being in combat recently. I thought I was commenting on an argument not the author.
Arguments for moral progress and moral regress aren't symetrical. If you have moral drift then naturally you will also have moral regress from the point of view of anyone who sticks to the older values.
Defending someone? I don't recalling being in combat recently. I thought I was commenting on an argument not the author.
Seriously, WTF? The lesson of "Arguments aren't soldiers" is not that meta-ethical or object-level moral debates shouldn't happen. It's that you shouldn't back an argument just because you agree with the results.
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