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You can choose to build whatever ethical framework you want for yourself. I personally prefer simple, robust principles or an "ethical framework" that doesn't r
by oskarth 10y ago
You can choose to build whatever ethical framework you want for yourself. I personally prefer simple, robust principles or an "ethical framework" that doesn't require me to know or worry about every minute detail about everyone I intentionally or unintentionally "support". I wouldn't be able to get to work in the morning if I cared about what my neighbors were up to.
In more realistic examples than the one outlined I believe it's almost always the case that:
(a) people are doing a bad job qua something, such as journalists not having journalistic standards, etc, or
(b) people judging someone outside of their "known" domain almost always over-react and misunderstand (see witch hunts for people that should be dealt properly by, say, the justice system). I.e. the side effects are generally more harmful, at least if you impose it on others.
- vertex-four 10y agoUnfortunately, life is hard, and if someone cares deeply about reducing harm in the world, it's harder still. You can very much choose to not care about people outside your close family, but that's not how I wish to live, and aside from as a mental defence mechanism against having to think about the horrors that people go through every day and how the system they're forced to take part in supports those horrors, I don't understand why other people would want to live that way.
- oskarth 10y agoYou completely missed my point and somehow turned yourself into a hero for supposedly caring about all these little harms that no one else cares about (while still having to earn a living, of course). Thanks for putting words into my mouth that I never said. Classic empty virtue signaling. (I should follow my own rule of never replying to my own thread outside of simple questions. It always bites me. Especially ironic how all the points in OP and my original comment applies to this thread.)