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There are some kinds of expertise that are defined more by the risks you take than by the skills with which you tackle those risks.
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This often gets conflated with the theory/practice divide but isn't the same. Eg: a really good marksman who lacks the courage to go on the battlefield isn't a "theorist" exactly, but has the wrong balance of risk-taking and skill.
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This is one reason I can't take "ethicist" seriously... it's one of those roles. Real ethicists take risks that can, in the worst case, get them killed, like Aaron Swartz. An academic ethicist who insists on their "expertise" from having studied ethics theories is... 🙄
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At the cost of 99% running something between grifts and scold theaters. The ratio of counterproductive to unproductive to productive is terrible. It had all the profound social costs of religion in modernity with none of the benefits of community and ceremony.
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I’d actually rather see revitalized religion enjoy a role than a growing ethical industrial complex of joyless and ineffectual scolds patronizingly brandishing spherical cows at a laity presumed to be moral morons
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