Yes, this strikes me as an important point. It’s a bit like how ideologically-motivated hate crimes are (I think correctly) regarded as worse than comparable “intentional” (but non-ideologically-motivated) violence, perhaps in part because it raises the risks of systematic harms.
Many moral differences are innocuous, but some really aren’t. For an extreme example: the “true believer” Nazi is in some ways worse than the cowardly citizen who goes along with the regime out of fear and self-interest. But that’s very different from everyday “value disagreements” which tend to involve values that we recognize as (at least to some extent) worthy of respect, even if we judge them ultimately mistaken.
Yes, this strikes me as an important point. It’s a bit like how ideologically-motivated hate crimes are (I think correctly) regarded as worse than comparable “intentional” (but non-ideologically-motivated) violence, perhaps in part because it raises the risks of systematic harms.
Many moral differences are innocuous, but some really aren’t. For an extreme example: the “true believer” Nazi is in some ways worse than the cowardly citizen who goes along with the regime out of fear and self-interest. But that’s very different from everyday “value disagreements” which tend to involve values that we recognize as (at least to some extent) worthy of respect, even if we judge them ultimately mistaken.