In my 'Psychology of Effective Altruism' class yesterday, we were talking about the emotion of 'moral awe' -- when you're so impressed by someone's ethical excellence & integrity that your hair stands on end. Who inspires moral awe in you -- and why?
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Who was the most popular opinion in your class?
Gandhi and Mother Theresa were the most common responses, but I think mostly because they're the media's go-to examples of 'ethical people' (deserved or not).
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For anybody interested in why Mother Theresa doesn’t deserve her reputation as a paragon of morality, see Christopher Hitchens’ The Missionary Position.
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I was gonna say. Mother Theresa was a terrible person in almost every way! How do people not know this?
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Mother Theresa certainly doesn’t deserve it.
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I agree with you. Mostly the impressions are media created.
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that's disheartening
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How many saying Gandhi know he didn't have too high an opinion on blacks?
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