Rationally Speaking #139 - Eric Schwitzgebel on "Moral hypocrisy: why doesn't knowing about ethics make people more ethical?"
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The Importance of Moral Consideration
Once you start thinking seriously about ethics, the scope of moral consideration widened so much beyond the typical person's scope. You're looking at things like failing to prevent harm and causing indirect harm or all of these things affecting future generations. At that point, the word wrong almost means something different because clearly it can't mean something you absolutely shouldn't do. Once you see the world as kind of ethically permeated, then you kind of have to face the fact that, you know, you're not going to be able to do that.
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