It is not clear to me that people whose job it is to 'think about ethics and values' produce better outcomes.
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Their purpose isn't to produce better outcomes, it's to produce justifications for the desired outcomes.
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I am making a historical statement too. Cicero's line in "On Friendship" about using the layman's definition of virtue rather than philosophical quibbles comes to mind.
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Back at PC-- The problem isn't so much that layman ethics and virtues turn out necessarily 'better', so much as systems that put large incentives on putting energy into an ethics systems get large swings out. Basically...undamped control systems.
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Also, the only way to put much energy into it is to professionalize it. Which professionals think is really important, for obvious reasons. And our society fetishize experts (tho not as much as
@RadioFreeTom wishes), so ...
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