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> What we really need therefore (IMHO) is to teach ethics to people The issue with almost all organized teaching (as opposed to when you don't even know you ar
by Noseshine 10y ago
> What we really need therefore (IMHO) is to teach ethics to people
The issue with almost all organized teaching (as opposed to when you don't even know you are doing it, e.g. to your children, every day) is that it only targets conscious thinking. Do you already see the problem with teaching "ethics" (and empathy)? It's the wrong brain area. People will ace the tests but how they actually act won't change. Another big reason for why teaching ethics (the way it is usually done) is that much of behavior is environment-driven. So you can teach someone all you want, if you then place them in a cut-throat competitive "result-driven" environment you can see empathy and ethics quietly sneak out the back door.
- tsylba 10y agoFurthermore, ethics is way too cultural and subjective to be taught. Even if we could all agree on macro-rules, eg. hurting peoples is bad whatever hurt they infliged, the more specifics (and micro) we become, the more divergences will arise. And as everythng, our perception of what is "ethics" will evolve.
- tunap 10y agoBeing deliberately obtuse goes a long way to delay a logical ending. Flashback to 2004 and the same type of debate/affirmations were posited to Dr Mandelbrot's apocalyptic warnings[0][1] of the imminent subprime crisis. Instead of learning lessons, the players continue to 'print money out of thin air'[2] and deny any fault for the last collapse. The rationale seems to be, 2007 was an extreme culmination of events that wouldn't happen again in millions of years. Problem is, in a universe of infinite variables, an infinite number of combinations exist and could manifest anytime a given set of vulnerabilities and unanticipated outlier events present themselves concurrently. [0] The (Mis)Behavior Of Markets 2004 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665134.The_Mis_Behavior_of_Markets http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665134.The_Mis_Behavior_o... [1] 2006 reminder http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5372968a-ba82-11da-980d-0000779e2340.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5372968a-ba82-11da-980d-0000779e23... [2]The Quants Great Monday Morning QB analysis on what went wrong & why it will be repeated(hint:greed +ability +hubris) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7495395-the-quants http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7495395-the-quants edit: fixed links