ethics
Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?
8d ago“Should the Boston City Council budget chair recuse from votes involving his wife's nonprofit grants?”
I love it. This is a good framing on it and I will remember it. The only tricky part for me is saying "this isn’t a problem just like a baby isn’t a problem" because of all the people that are suffering tremendously. To them it is a problem.... - b_b...
Yes, thank you, i think what you’ve said about the medium term really highlights where I feel most unclear. Here’s one brush at it • In the super short term (decades?), from a totally egocentric POV, it doesn’t matter what we do.... That seems too far away; I think there’s a lot of other countries that don’t have our ick reactions to things that look vaguely like eugenics (e.g. there was Hitler brand ice cream for sale in India for a... We’re already doing this, to a large extent. Drawing on our own principles for what’s right/good and not caving to external pressure. But when we are obviously thriving, it’s much more clear that there’s something "right" about what we’re doing even though it goes against the... Open heart to their suffering, wanting to love them in that, and the suffering about suffering. Something about wanting to separate compassion for the 1st person experience from 3rd person truth claims maybe?...