On which issues will we become less moral?
29th September 2010
Tyler Cowen is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
Ross Douthat considers the hoary question of which current practices we will someday condemn, linking also to Appiah, who raised it, and Will Wilkinson. Prisons, factory farming, immigration barriers, and abortion are among the nominations. I would suggest an alternate query, namely which practices currently considered to be outrageous will make a moral comeback in the court of public opinion? Torture and loss of privacy — in some of its forms at least — already seem to be on the rise, at least in terms of their acceptability in the United States.