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Good article, but I fear that sharing quotes without their context may do more harm than good. As a random example, quote 163 reads in part: > (...) Then I we
by probably_wrong 6y ago
Good article, but I fear that sharing quotes without their context may do more harm than good.
As a random example, quote 163 reads in part:
> (...) Then I went into soda ash. Without it, there wouldn’t be a window pane in the whole United States. But at the time, because of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, suddenly I became a polluter. Children learned in school that chemicals killed. And, of course, there was no question in the academic community that I was perceived as an evil person doing evil things.
The full quote presents the author as someone who is unhappy because they performed good-intentioned work and suddenly their good-intentioned work is cast a bad light (it also talks about DDT and CFC). However, quote 25 reads:
> The logical result of alertness to expediency is the elimination of any ethical lines at all.
which may or may not undermine the first quote's point entirely, depending on how these two quotes are related to each other.
Given that the article itself starts with "Reading and actually paying attention to Moral Mazes is hard. (...) I effectively spent several months forcing my way through the book, because it seemed important to do that", the risk of these quotes being misunderstood from small snippets seems quite high.