Full Idea
I doubt whether morality is an object of final value. It seems to have more to do with distributing the things we finally value (like health or security) than something we value for its own sake.
Gist of Idea
Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value
Source
Tom Cochrane (The Aesthetic Value of the World [2021], 1.3)
A Reaction
Note the paradox of the virtue of compassion, that it actually requires miserable suffering to exist. It can't be an ultimate value if the total elimination of suffering is a good. I think Cochrane is right.
Book Reference
Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.17
Related Idea
Idea 24168 Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right [Cochrane]