the issue is that we aren't good enough at knowing what the consequences of actions will be. virtue ethics is an attempt align decisions with traits that have a historical pattern of success.
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Thanks for clarifying. We further disagree.
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For the former, I'd get lost in biology and just say: they are. For the later, first, I'd say: why not?
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Then l'd try to reframe progressivism and morality as clearly optimizing something
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Interesting discussion
My 2 pennies - if new info came to light, that what was thought a virtue was leading to previously unknown but clearly bad consequences.... it stops being a virtue, just like that.
Preferences for particular consequences are always the key to ethics.
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