🌱 protecting the means of improving knowledge is more important than any particular piece of knowledge
The real truth is that science is not based on empiricism it’s based on reason and so is morality so if you adopt a rational attitude to morality and therefore say that morality consists of moral knowledge which consists always a conjectures doesn’t have any basis doesn’t need a basis only needs modes of criticism and those modes of criticism operate by criteria which themselves have modes of criticisms you come to a a a sort of transcendent moral truth which from which I think you’re one emerges as an approximation which is that institutions that suppress the growth of moral knowledge are immoral because well big because they can an only be right if the final truth is already known but if all knowledge is conjectural and subject to improvement then protecting the means of improving knowledge is more important than any particular piece of knowledge