This is my basic problem with libertarian virtue ethics focused on 'sovereign individual' type thinking. It often conflates power and virtue, and using power to force harder choices on others for personal responsibility. I'm fine with darwinist competition so long as you own it.
"Let them eat cake" is a real syndrome. For a queen, the "obvious" solution to not having bread is to eat cake. That sort of thing seems to count as "skill" to some. And that "skill" is then used to justify lecturing starving people to not act helpless.
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I need to go, but I tried to describe treating this kind of pragmatic manipulation as competence in one of my last few posts...will try to find it when I get back.
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In my haste to leave, I misunderstood your point here. Yeah, people overvalue their experience instead of understanding others from first principles. Some preach options (cake) others don't have access to.
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But others make excuses because they can't imagine that ethics and accomplishment is possible at levels of, say, poverty they can’t imagine. They flat out deny agency and call it kindness. Greater standing should be granted to people who came up from similar situations:
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