Switching it around a little, if your personal "respected" leader of society changed their a
fundamental principle which you believed, would you feel obligated to change yours to
match theirs?
One respected leader, no. Unless you viewed them, by your choice, as individually sufficient, as some people choose to view the Pope.
But if the body of respected leaders changed their fundmental principles, probably yes. This, for example, is how society ended slavery, adopted universal sufferage, ended branding and whipping as standard punishments for offenses, etc.
Of course, I'm not ignoring that in most or all these cases there were some in the vanguard who changed their principles first, before the mass of respected leaders did. But nobody said the process of forming broadly accepted moral principles was neat or tidy. |
