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All good design is moral design, and only moral design can ever be good. Nonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims. There's
by gyardley 14y ago
All good design is moral design, and only moral design can ever be good.
Nonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims. There's been no shortage of good design used for vile aims, and there's tons of good causes with poor design.
- pjscott 14y agoYour disagreement with the author -- if it can really be called a disagreement -- completely vanishes if you categorize designs along separate good-evil and effective-ineffective axes.
- jtheory 14y agoNot using those exact terms, but the article discusses this explicitly as well.
- eevilspock 14y agoNonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims Nonsense. How do you define "effective" without aims? I believe the author's point of view is that an aim must first be moral to be good a aim, and this leads to his statement that you quote.