Specificity and uncertainty are treated as intolerable in moral discourse

Evidence

The doctrine need only be general, sure of itself, universal, and imperative. What seems intolerable is the attempt to break away from the “Either-Or,” to overcome mistrust for the abstract principle and infallibility without doctrine. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to reader’s long-standing interest in how questions are framed and foreclosed — echoes Milgrom chapters on institutional design constraining options. — connects to: Radicalized uncertainty intensifies society’s hunger for orienting narratives — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 18
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Radicalized uncertainty intensifies society’s hunger for orienting narratives — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 18