Understanding the causes of progress is a moral imperative, because progress is neither automatic nor guaranteed to continue.

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• Producing moral, not just technological, progress requires introducing new moral premises that invert what people previously believed. BSBalaji Srinivasan12 Jul 2026
• Two centuries of progress were a trend with real causes rather than a fluke, and can continue far into the future. JCJason Crawford12 Sept 2020
• Progress is not natural or automatic: it happens only while people believe it is possible and desirable, and it can stop. JCJason Crawford12 Sept 2020
• The price of progress in civilization is paid in lost happiness, through a heightened sense of guilt SFSigmund Freudc. 1930
• Nothing is expedient unless it is morally right; a thing is expedient because it is right, not the reverse CICiceroc. 45–44 BCE

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