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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 Morality in Contractualism

If you think of morality in this minimum way, the moral demands are more like that. So it's not that, oh, if I'm having a bad day as a police officer, that means that the civilians needs to give me a pass. Right. No, I have certain demands of being in this role. If I'm a parent, I havecertain demands ofBeing in the role that are grounded in the needs of the people I'm serving. You don't get a pass for that. The fact that somebody is an entrenched chauvinist say, and so like you really can't can't seriously expect that person to suddenly turn out to be respectful,. That doesn't make it

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