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It's their great calling right now, to get people all around the world better at expanding their moral imaginations, appreciating that in so many ways they're in the same boat.

And a testament to this is the thing that most amazes me, most impresses me, and most uplifts me, which is that there is a moral dimension to history; there is a moral arrow.

We have seen moral progress over time.

And then this moral revolution arrived, and they decided that actually, no, Greeks are human beings.

And I really do think that, in that sense at least, capitalism has been a constructive force, and more fundamentally, it's a non-zero-sumness that has been a constructive force in expanding people's realm of moral awareness.

As it has moved global, moved us toward a global level of social organization, it has driven us toward moral truth.

I think we're going to have to have a major round of moral progress in the world.

There's going to have to be moral progress.

So, these two things, you know, if they get people's attention and drive home the positive correlation and people do what's in their self-interests, which is further the moral evolution, then they could actually have a constructive effect.

Now, launching a moral revolution has got to be hard, right?

And I think that is an expansion of your moral compass when you manage to do that.

The idea when you go through this moral exercise of really coming to appreciate their humanity and better understand them, is part of an effort to get them to appreciate your humanity in the long run.

And a kind of saving higher moral level, something that kind of literally saves the world.

So, I think you're dealing with something that people instinctively see as part of their moral sense.

So that storytelling, like all other contradictions in the universe, is looking for harmony and infinity in moral resolutions, resolving one, but letting another go, letting another go and creating a question that is really important.

And I think of this as kind of a moral landscape, with peaks and valleys that correspond to differences in the well-being of conscious creatures, both personal and collective.

I'm not saying that science is guaranteed to map this space, or that we will have scientific answers to every conceivable moral question.

Another thing to notice is there may be many peaks on the moral landscape: There may be equivalent ways to thrive; there may be equivalent ways to organize a human society so as to maximize human flourishing.

Many people worry that a universal morality would require moral precepts that admit of no exceptions.

So, for instance, if it's really wrong to lie, it must always be wrong to lie, and if you can find an exception, well then there's no such thing as moral truth.

Now, this brings us to the sorts of moves that people are apt to make in the moral sphere.

Now the irony, from my perspective, is that the only people who seem to generally agree with me and who think that there are right and wrong answers to moral questions are religious demagogues of one form or another.

And of course they think they have right answers to moral questions because they got these answers from a voice in a whirlwind, not because they made an intelligent analysis of the causes and condition of human and animal well-being.

In fact, the endurance of religion as a lens through which most people view moral questions has separated most moral talk from real questions of human and animal suffering.

How have we convinced ourselves that in the moral sphere there is no such thing as moral expertise, or moral talent, or moral genius even?

CA: A lot of people want to believe in this concept of moral progress.

Paint your picture of what rolling the clock 50 years forward, 100 years forward, how you would like to think of the world, balancing moral progress with richness.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, "The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason."

Furthermore, those images forever removed the so-called moral high ground of the occupying forces.

And I really want to build green, but I'm very suspicious of all of these well-meaning articles, people long on moral authority and short on data, telling me how to do these kinds of things.

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