
Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Moral Licensing
There is an account that, you know, there's these set of findings in the social psychological literature that when you when you do one good thing, you're sort of licensing yourself to do another bad thing. So my theory is that ethicists do it because it's naughty. Oh, this is so bad. Look, I'm having some bacon. Yeah, I need to be punished. Josh: The simplest explanation is that all of this moral theorizing is just completely causally inert as nothing to do with your actual behavior. You might actually end up behaving morally on average about the same way anyway.
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