Validity of morality
On the one hand, you claim that without the gods, there is no valid and binding morality. On the other hand, you claim that the Knesset and the Supreme Court have formal authority and that we must listen to them, otherwise there will be chaos, etc. The obvious question is why don’t you make the same claim about morality, that in fact there is formal authority for the rules of morality, which it is clear to everyone that if we don’t listen to them, there will be a catastrophe here?
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First, the Knesset’s authority is not due to the fear of catastrophe, but because we agreed to accept it upon ourselves. This agreement itself probably stemmed from the fear of catastrophe.
If you accept the rules of morality only at the instrumental level, this is utilitarian morality. And in this regard, too, I have distinguished in the past between two meanings: 1. The greatest benefit is the measure of the moral act, but I do it out of a commitment to morality and not to achieve the result. 2. I do it to achieve the result. The first method is not problematic and I am willing to agree with it in principle (although in practice I do not agree. See column 122). The second method is not a moral method at all. If a person prefers the immoral result, he can act immorally and you have no way of arguing with him.
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