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Surely at least some "conservative moralizing" is shorthand for avoiding likely future suffering, especially becuase biological reality isn't nearly as malleable as we can wish to believe in our youth.
I'm thinking of the 20yo woman who thiinks "body count" doesn't matter at all, and for very obvious evopsych reasons is more likely to be …
Surely at least some "conservative moralizing" is shorthand for avoiding likely future suffering, especially becuase biological reality isn't nearly as malleable as we can wish to believe in our youth.
I'm thinking of the 20yo woman who thiinks "body count" doesn't matter at all, and for very obvious evopsych reasons is more likely to be in a range of negative states at 40. The attitude that I believe will maximize consequences is much closer to her view than it is to a burqa, but there are still many who would call any deviation from her view at all "conservative moralizing". (Maybe you'd want to call her view "leftist moralizing", a similar deviation from rational consequentialism?)
See footnote 1!
Aha, duly noted.