@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing from social strategies of the form "if you don't do the strictly best thing, you should feel terrible".
@MemberOfSpecies Maybe… maybe that points at the concept of a lower bound of ethical adequacy, with the zone of freedom above.
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@Meaningness When people ask "how ethical should I be", maybe they're modeling themselves as acting on base motives by default, -
@Meaningness but being pulled in other directions like altruism or rule-following by moral reflection, - 10 more replies
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@Meaningness But it's not the case that taking the money is merely above a lower bound of ethical adequacy. It's the best thing to do. -
@MemberOfSpecies Well, donating both your kidneys so two other people can live and you die may be *best* thing to do, but is supererogatory - 2 more replies
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@Meaningness Suppose a billionaire offered to give you some money, and taking it would make the world better off, as he wouldn't miss it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness Then you "should" take the money, but it doesn't rise to an "ethical" question, because you'd want to take it, anyway.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness (I forget where I was going with that, but I'll leave it up to clarify what I meant by a different sense of "ethical".)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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