Episode 118 - The difference between “moralising” and solving a moral problem

Moralising Start from a situation that they consider a moral problem Something immoral, unfair But then … Reverting to blaming the people, generalizing from a specific event to general characteristics of the person in question or groups of people Excluding the possibility that people can learn from mistakes Appealing to condemnation of those people Signaling that you are not one of those people, that you have more truth Solving a moral problem is the opposite Identifying the problem, even asking if it is a real moral problem Go into the specifics of the problem, the context, the actual events, criticisms on certain claims about the event … consider all your claims fallible, you seek more truth Propose and test solutions