marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

moral progress is annoying

June 21, 2024

source: aeon.co

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Why moralising is psychologically annoying:

Many genuinely good arguments for moral change will be initially experienced as annoying. Moreover, the emotional responses that people feel in these situations are not typically produced by psychological processes that are closely tracking argument structure or responding directly to moral reasons. Instead, they stem from psychological mechanisms that enable people to adapt to local norms – what’s called our norm psychology.

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