9. If the reason people don't is that it would destabilize their identity and relationships, maybe it's not so great to be right.
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It's great when the motives that drive folks to want to be right & not concede error get them to concede error as a way of being right.
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There's a really boring sense in which you can never do anything for virtuous motives because of the is-ought dichotomy. But if you start...
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...with even a slight desire for virtue, there are lots of ways to magnify it effectively.
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I'm too Kantian to concede this! Normative motivation is always bootstrapped off more basic motives, but that doesn't make it non-virtuous.
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