@_jordan_bates No, I’m afraid I haven’t written anything about that.
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your page on ethics (https://meaningness.com/ethics ) prompted the question. in general you suggest that we should be less ethical
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This may help explain what I mean by “we should be less ethical” although it’s not the whole story: https://meaningness.com/counterculture-war#disentangling …
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finished reading that essay this morning—spectacular. okay, so you're referring to the moralization of politics and other...
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domains wherein a moral/ethical lens can be counterproductive
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Yes. “We should be less ethical” is sort of a joke (though also serious). We should not apply “ethics” where it doesn’t help.
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also we should resist claims of ethical totalitarianism that make everything a moral matter. Freedom matters too!
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“Supererogation” is a key term here.
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