I mean I did, but in retrospect I reject the question. Neither describes an implementable ethical strategy.
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I've read enough* Talmudic law to know that I hate a lot of their advice and I hate their reasoning TBH. * which I'll admit isn't a *lot*, but it's more than most people who aren't Jewish
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Anyway this is basically the golden rule and the golden rule is shit because it ignores the degree to which preferences vary among people.
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what about the golden metarule that takes into consideration that you would not have done unto you things that someone else would have done unto themselves but that you dont want done unto you nonetheless
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I've argued with too many utilitarians to accept "if you think real hard my terrible ethical system turns into a completely different ethical system that is Actually Good" as a valid line of reasoning.
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I think your about to talk yourself into endorsing the NAP
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I don't think so? I'm mostly a virtue ethicist TBH
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Trying to define simple rules about right action is a sin. (Except this one, this is a fine and virtuous rule that has no exceptions except itself)
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This is much easier for me. My main objection to the "Do good things" vs "Don't do bad things" is that there are always risks of bad outcomes and you shouldn't seek to make those risks zero, but it does pay to err on the side of avoiding bad things in general.
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