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  • The perceptual theory of modal knowledge would be that perceiving talk, of modal facts, is not wrong. So perhaps some people have propositional perception and others don't. Perhaps some people see that the cat is gray instead of a gray cat as such. Who knows? But still, since I don't know the answer to my question, and none of the answers of others are helping me at all, I don't see why this question has to endure. keshlam and Jo Wehler usually post their own guesses as answers anyway so I don't see the value of keeping their guesses up in this case. Commented 2 days ago
  • I'm also familiar with the question of interpreting, "Someone ought to do X, but for anyone who ends up doing it, it wasn't that they were the one who ought to." I think I saw it as an option in theories of supererogation. So, for some people, this is the way. No problem! But this doesn't seem to affect my issue, which is that I seem (Kant be damned) to "just see" that I often have multiple possibilities before me, on whatever basis. Perhaps I can choose between spaghetti and lasagna sometimes; but that's not obviously to me a moral issue? Commented 2 days ago
  • And what about Fröken Kristi’s silk stockings, and the line of her maturing legs? Thank you for sharing. That was quite a wonderful story. Commented 2 days ago
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    " In my experience, people with a strong conscience, or with strong moral principles, who are socially empathetic, and willing to help others even when this might come with a relatively high price to themselves, are clearer about what (according to them) needs to be done, clearer about which possible options to try to realize" - +1 This seems an affirmation of the Greek who held there are no bad people, only ignorant ones. Commented 17 hours ago
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    @JD - Yes, in a way. But note that I also said that "clarity" is itself ambiguous. Judgemental people (and sociopaths like the ones in charge of the current US admininistration) are probably also extremely "clear" about what is the right direction. Really, Babel's story resonates with me: the narrator only reveals his actual attitude (which does not choose between color and line) in the word "ominous". You may to read his other autobiographical stories (Red Cavalry) to be able to fully appreciate this. Commented 17 hours ago