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I don’t know; we didn’t used to have such a problem with dishonesty and sophestry. Integrity and morality generally was sort of rewarded with social currency, b
by weberc2 8y ago
I don’t know; we didn’t used to have such a problem with dishonesty and sophestry. Integrity and morality generally was sort of rewarded with social currency, but that was considered old-fashioned and we did away with it. It wasn’t a perfect system, but I think we may have taken a wrong turn.
- danharaj 8y agoI'm pretty sure Plato had been complaining about this stuff. I suppose we didn't use to have those problens before civilization became a thing.
- weberc2 8y agoTo be clear, I wasn't arguing that never before nor anywhere in the world was there ever issues with sophistry and dishonesty. Plato didn't live in America in the 1990s and 2000s.