11 September

I find if you ask people how they decide things, they’ll sometimes have a set of rules or a moral code, or often some one-liner like ‘each to their own’. In practice though my guess is people evaluate things in a complex range of ways, which they may struggle to articulate. But even more, that sort of valuation is often embedded in the objects in our lives. That’s the true morality I think that we don’t see. An example - inclusive bathrooms. The bathroom itself is inclusive, it has values built into it. Most of the moral work of our lives is carried out by engineers. That’s the reason I think we don’t have well articulated moral codes any more - we often don’t need them. We’ve habitualised good behaviour in the environments we build.