FISKING: From responses to Dara's blog:
" I think I'm in partially the same place you are, in regards to my "morals" being internalized and conservative, rather than reasoned and liberal. The way I've decided to deal with it is to make certain that I'm exposed to the situations that I reason are right but feel are wrong. That way I can recondition myself to feel that they are at least ok.
Another thought is, if you haven't done X once, how can you know whether X is right or wrong for you..."
I see at least two huge problems with the argument presented here.
1. There are, of course, all sorts of things I don't need to do to know that they're wrong for me; to use my favorite loaded example, I don't need to kill a Jew to know that killing Jewish people is wrong (and not even just 'for me:' I'd be happy to make that a general moral rule).
2. The suggestion that you can habituate yourself into thinking that things that were wrong are now right seems to have nothing but troubling consequences, at least to me.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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