Dismiss Guilt as Cultural

This is one of six responses that we have built into our life systems to deal with our guilt.
The most convenient escape in a confused society is to glibly brush aside guilt as a cultureal appendage.  Such academic dismissal of moral reality fails to take into account that even when we differ culturally from one another in our behaviour, the reasons that justify that behaviour are often the same – meta-ethical similarities.

Moral understanding transcends particular societies and cultures.

We find lots of wickedness, self-deception, insincerity and hypocrisy at the United Nations. But we find too that diplomats understand each other’s arguments, and that they often quarrel about each other’s factual premises but rarely about pure moral principle. No one defends acknowledged unprovoked aggression. Hence, it appears that there is a transnational understanding of moral reasoning.