
Episode 77: On the Moral Nature of Nazis, Jerks, and Ethicists (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Role of Reflection in Moral Development
St. Shinsa compares moral development to straightening a board by pressing it against a straightening rod, right? So, there's this kind of, for Monza, moral development is about turning your attention inward and finding those natural reactions. Whereas, for Shinsa, it's about turning outward, finding standards outside of yourself and then kind of forcing yourself to comply to those standards. I think there are also chronic predictions that come out really interestingly in the historical literature on genocide. The more important thing is what do they say about their perception of the other people in the unit and you're probably not going to be able to answer that question automatically.
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