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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,

@Meaningness and asking how strongly they should be so pulled before it causes them to overshoot the ethical-philosophically best action.

@Meaningness E.g. "How ethical [pulled toward altruistic] should [according to utilitarianism] I [who am inclined to be egoistic] be?"

@MemberOfSpecies I think that’s probably right except the [according to utilitarianism].

@Meaningness But it seems like considerations are similar for e.g. how much one should follow rules at one's own expense.

@Meaningness I guess the intuition is that the "should" here doesn't actually represent theories like utilitarianism and deontology.

@Meaningness What if it represents a theory that's a mix of utilitarianism and ethical egoism?