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Virtue Ethics and The Quest for Character

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What Is Nudging and Does It Work?

I was just thinking how absurd it is that the situation that I'm in right now is I have three kids and of course we have Halloween candy. It's all over the house I can't not let them go out and trick or treat or whatever and I also can't let them eat entire buckets full of candy so I end up eating them myself and then having a sort of upset stomach. yeah there's a very good empirical evidence that this thing works if people get into the habit of reminding of asking themselves you know what would stock at his do or what would a petitus do orwhat would my grandmother do under those conditions then they actually do tend to act more adequately.

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