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07-16-2015, 12:37 AM
thought this might be a related article.
Why aren't ethicists better people?
By Cory Doctorow at 7:01 am Wed, Jul 15, 2015
" Professional ethicists aren't any more likely to behave ethically than baseline humans who don't get paid to sit around all day and contemplate the difference between right and wrong."
"The moral philosophers whom we remember from the past -- Socrates, Buddha, Jesus -- lived as they preached, and much of the moral authority of their teachings comes from their willingness to sacrifice their own comfort for their beliefs (washing beggars' feet, drinking hemlock)."
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/15/why-are...ter-p.html
Why aren't ethicists better people?
By Cory Doctorow at 7:01 am Wed, Jul 15, 2015
" Professional ethicists aren't any more likely to behave ethically than baseline humans who don't get paid to sit around all day and contemplate the difference between right and wrong."
"The moral philosophers whom we remember from the past -- Socrates, Buddha, Jesus -- lived as they preached, and much of the moral authority of their teachings comes from their willingness to sacrifice their own comfort for their beliefs (washing beggars' feet, drinking hemlock)."
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/15/why-are...ter-p.html