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Taking an ethics class taught me something that in retrospect should have been obvious but wasn't to me at the time: disagreements about ethical questions come
by elihu 8y ago
Taking an ethics class taught me something that in retrospect should have been obvious but wasn't to me at the time: disagreements about ethical questions come largely from a different prioritization of certain values. If I come to one ethical determination and someone else comes up with another, it's not because they didn't apply logic in the same (obviously correct) way I did. Most likely, they just have different priorities or they use a different ethical framework.
That isn't to say that ethics is completely subjective or whatever you feel like, but the class helped nudge me out of an "everyone who disagrees with me must be wrong" attitude.
Plenty of people learn this without having to take a class but in my case the class was helpful.