The Case for Minding Your Own Business
The Art of Manliness
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The Dangers of Minding Other People's Business and the Merits of Minding Your Own
The first half of the book discusses the dangers of minding other people's business, emphasizing that utilitarianism may undervalue simple, meaningful actions. It warns against becoming a moralizer by overstepping boundaries when enforcing morality, highlighting the limitations on our rights to intervene. These limitations include the insignificance of the issue, lack of sufficient information, complexity of the situation, unclear circumstances, lack of social standing, being a hypocrite, and not having the appropriate social role. The moralizer tends to enforce morality despite these limitations, thus intruding where they don't belong.
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