responsible person > good person
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If we had that attitude we'd (all 10 of us homo saps) still be sitting in cave 1 wondering if we'd upset the herds and the grass by crossing over to cave 2........
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yeah, you're not reading it right
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then why unintentional instead of intentional?
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that's the kind of question you should really fire up the ol' inference engine for instead of having me fill in the blank but when you have an idea why that word would be there instead of the other one then you'll be reading it right
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what people seem to keep ultimately tripping up on is that "avoid unintentional harm" really means "just show due diligence in trying to avoid it, which includes making an effort to learn from (the inevitable) failures"
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I may even seriously raise the question of whether there even is such a thing as intentional harm, except in a few safely discountable extreme outlier cases. it's really not as obvious as it might feel
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that certainly seems entirely insupportible to me, so naturally i'm very curious as to how you would support it
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I just doubt doing what you know to be harm in the immediate scale without some underlying belief that it's for the good or at least justifiable on some wider scale is really that big a thing in normal psychology. everyone's got reasons.
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might quibble that I'm not sure there's any viable non-trivial definition of "good" that doesn't have "responsible" as a necessary condition, but otherwise endorse
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I wonder if there is an implied, "and unnecessary" after "unintentional," and, if not, if it ought to be explicit.
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nah, implies that there is teleological necessity that isn't a function of intention which undermines the whole position
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Ah ha. And all of a sudden, the entire point (yours) starts coming into focus.
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so hopefully now you see that
@jenphalian is right about what a monster i am -
f course! A completely depraved yet curiously ethical monster. I am proud to know you.
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And now I'm thinking I should write a book with an utterly depraved yet curiously ethical monster. Unless you're going to argue that I've already written 15 of them, a position I don't think I could refute.
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