Recent post from @nayafia helped me articulate a massive personal shift these past few years in how I approach ethics:
I've come to realize ethics is a matter of policy, not principle. There are always tradeoffs. Absolutes don't hold up to close scrutinyhttps://nadiaeghbal.com/moral-infrastructure …
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Replying to @devonzuegel @nayafia
I'm struggling to parse this essay, though I went through similar purity struggles w/ veg*nism. I wasn't super troubled by "what-abouts" (I was comfortably enmeshed w/ e.g. bivalvegans, freegans). I don't see a policy/ethics divide, or obvious broad implications for culpability.
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I see two key points: ⚬ A demand for total purity re: ethics creates very fragile routines ⚬ It's hard to find leverage points when many entangled systems constitute infrastructure for good + bad actors I agree with both, I'm just not sure their intersection is obvious!
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