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Morality suffices to navigate well-defined ethical domains. It fails, and may be worse than useless, when facing “wicked problems”—nebulous ones, in my terminology. “Being a good person” is the essence of the culture war. Y’all should stop that. It’s profoundly destructive.
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Yeah, I started out writing the essay kinda partisan, focusing on the failure of ethical reasoning, then halfway through I realized technical rationality (on the "paradox" upper half of my 2x2) would fail for similar reasons, so you have to deal with both failures at once