ABSTRACT
It would be a gross misunderstanding of my analysis of Schadenfreude to conclude that we cannot blame others for their moral beliefs. What I have tried to do is highlight the plurality of moral beliefs about the good. Countless philosophers have pondered a point masterfully summed up by Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” (2.2.249). My claim here is simply that we take what we believe to be true. Plenty of people really do believe that abortion and gay sex represent beastly crimes; they are not faking these beliefs, as some liberals have suggested. By the same token, plenty of people believe precisely the opposite about abortion and gay sex; those who morally defend these acts are not faking their beliefs either. Jaggar clarifies how systems of domination deny legitimacy to certain beliefs and emotions.
