Your Pilings Need Reworking When This Happens

Kiyah Willis on Journal of Free Black Thought has an important observation she makes off the cuff:

But this led to a moral crisis. What I believed to be moral and what I believed to be true were at odds. And it wasn’t just this dilemma—I’d discovered a serious flaw in my entire path of thinking, a deeper philosophical issue. Were reality and morality incompatible? Surely, that couldn’t be right.

Morality, like a lot of human activities, evolves, and evolution is a messy, and sometimes unsuccessful, business. If your morality extinguishes your culture, your species, well, was your morality, ah, moral? Can a lion successfully be vegetarian?

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