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.
Special guest Eric Schwitzgebel joins David and Tamler to discuss the moral behavior (or lack thereof) of ethicists. Does moral reflection make us better people, or does it just give us better excuses to be immoral? Who's more right about human nature--Mencius or Xun Zi? What did Kant have against bastards and masturbating? Plus, we talk about jerks, robot cars, and killing baby Hitler. (Godwin's Law within 1:42--might be a new record for us).
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