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Yes, blameworthy, but not “bad”. Not the same thing. At all.
by pfortuny 9mo ago
Yes, blameworthy, but not “bad”. Not the same thing. At all.
- irl_zebra 9mo agoThey are very related concepts. Lack of remorse? Malicious act? Particularly heinous act? Both morally blameworthy and bad person! Isolated incident? Not a pattern? Morally blameworthy but not bad person. This is pretty standard virtue ethics we all learned in school. Your statements that morally blameworthiness and badness are "[n]ot the same thing...[a]t all" and that we should "[n]ever qualify the person, only the deed" make me think your moral framework is likely not linked to millennia of thought in this area from Socrates on down, so it's unlikely we will get anywhere and should "agree to disagree."