Moralising

• Start from a situation that they consider a moral problem
• Something immoral, unfair
• But then …
  • Reverting to blaming the people,
    • generalizing from a specific event to general characteristics of the person in question or groups of people
  • Excluding the possibility that people can learn from mistakes
  • Appealing to condemnation of those people
  • Signaling that you are not one of those people, that you have more truth

Solving a moral problem is the opposite

• Identifying the problem, even asking if it is a real moral problem
• Go into the specifics of the problem, the context, the actual events, criticisms on certain claims about the event … consider all your claims fallible, you seek more truth
• Propose and test solutions