Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems – Center on Long-Term Risk
Several arguments support the heuristic that we should help groups holding different value systems from our own when doing so is cheap, unless those groups prove uncooperative to our values. This is true even if we don't directly care at all about other groups' value systems. Exactly how nice to be depends on the particulars of the situation.
Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems 29 August 2015 by Brian Tomasik First written: 16 Jan. 2014; last update: 17 Oct. 2017 I suggest several arguments in support of the heuristic that we should help groups holding different value systems from our own when doing so is cheap, unless those groups prove uncooperative to our values. This is true even if we don't directly care at all about other groups' value systems. Exactly how nice to be depends on the particulars of the situation, but there are some cases where helping others' moral views is clearly beneficial for us. Contents Introduction
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