You do not need 'ethics' to be good - by Max Langenkamp
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Good interactions involve knowledge, skill, care, and proximity
Taddeo di Bartolo, Gluttons in Hell (1393) As a dislocated fourteen year-old, I desperately wanted to know “how to be good”1. Luckily, I found refuge in moral philosophy. It taught me that I could learn to be good by thinking through the right rules. These could be found by logically examining thought experiments: Should you divert a runaway trolley to kill one person instead of five? Is it ethical to steal bread to feed yourself? If you and ten people are starving on a boat stranded at sea, is it wrong to use a lottery to figure out who you should eat? How wonderful, I thought, if I…
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