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Christmas Philosophy 101

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What Does It Mean to Be Nice or Be Naughty?

Philosophers have been looking at this for over four thousand years, and the western tradition alone so massive. When santa is thinking about naughty and nice, morality, good and bad, what are the ways he could be thinking about that? The first one is probably consequentialism. What i want to say here is that judging morality based on consequences has some intuitive appeal. Like if you, as a kid, are constantly doing things that cause harm to other people and cause them to be in pain, that seems bad. We might intuitively understand why san santa would judge you as naughty in that case.

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