If you have the capacity for it, you should be less moral. Not more immoral, not more self-interested, but less confined by fixed ideas of goodness.
Essay from resonates with my writing on ethics, although in somewhat different conceptual framework.
breakingsmart.substack.com/p/good-people-
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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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Strong analogy: both ethics and technical rationality fail in the face of nebulosity.
In both cases, one should *not* revert to immorality or irrationality.
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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

