What is 10 kbp, I assume it is 10,000 years ago?Sculptor wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:08 pmSince the moral landscape of 10kbp is unknown and unknowable you cannot pretend "progress".Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 5:28 amThere are various meanings to the term 'law', it is not restricted only to 'community' laws.Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:08 pm
There are no private internal moral laws.
In fact it is tantamount to a contradiction in terms since moral laws are definitively given by the community, else they are not laws at all.
Personal ethical behaviour is always a negotiation between personal opinion, moral teachings from one's culture and personal interests.
These are modified by how close or remote the moral actors are in the given situations and whom they might concern.
They say a friend will help you move; but a good friend will help you move a body.
Moral law has no semantic meaning in the context of the individual.
Additionally people do not jus "know" that slavery is wrong. You simply cannot delete the cultural indoctrination from an innate sense of justice. Slavery is a constant in human history and emancipation and manumission are rather recent ideas given the long duration of human history.
Note this meaning of 'law', as in natural laws, e.g. Physics, etc. thus akin to 'principles'.It is a natural law that all living humans must have oxygen [via breathing naturally or artificially] else they die.
- a general rule that states what always happens when the same conditions exist:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/law
I am arguing, all humans are "programmed" with a moral potential which has been slowly unfolding since humans emerged and the rate of unfoldment is greater at present which had resulted in the average moral progress since 10,000 years ago.
One thing we can be sure of it that there is more human misery now, and more slaves now, than there were then.
Again. Are you trying to make a point here?
One can easily make reasonable inferences from various historical articles, e.g. the building of the pyramids, great wall of China, Roman history, wars and losers captured as slaves, etc.
The differential power between the rulers and the majority is so great and thus slavery was very common during 3000-10,000 years ago.
Note even the evident Bible and Quran condoned slavery.
Note I have argued we need to look at relative % of the population then and the type of slavery involved.
Note the point there is an increased in the average IQ of the majority since 200 years ago but this is also corresponded with increased ignorance when with increased-intelligence widened the horizon of knowledge that is to be known.
What is critical here in terms of moral progress is the illegality of slavery [especially chattel slavery, exploitation of child labor, etc.] in all sovereign nations.
My point is as represented in the OP.