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The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Responsibility

A lot more of what we do, I think, is shaped around us or for us than we like to admit. It's very hard to build a society where you don't ask people to be responsible for their actions. The morality of right and wrong is the minimum system of rules that we could respectfully live together under. And it's not okay to send the message that other people are allowed to act like this.

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