AugustoJun 29, 2023

Took a walk today and picked up trash around the neighborhood.

I don't usually do that. Feels kind of futile, and my sensory issues don't like it.

But I was just thinking about how in order to be the best #witch I can be, I need to be caring for the spaces around me.

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Show threadAugustoJun 29, 2023

And this got me thinking: I typically consider myself to be a consequentialist of some variety when it comes to ethics. But I *act* like a better person when I subscribe to a form of virtue ethics (even when it's, like, being the best #witch possible as the virtue).

So does this make virtue ethics superior in this case? Maybe not on a purely rational level, but on a holistic one?

#ethics #philosophy

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Finally, if I *am* a better person when I consider virtue ethics, but intellectually consider consequentialism to be more rational, which should win out? A purely philosophical mind might say the rational one, but then again, from a CONSEQUENTIALIST STANDPOINT, the virtue ethics are more ethical in my case????

#philosophy #ethics

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Jun 29, 2023 at 11:28pmWeb
Show threadcolinl1988Jun 30, 2023
@The_Augusto Plot-twist: ethical theories are really just lenses we apply to munge our way through the various challenges we face as individuals and as a collective. This is why we often feel trapped by the boundaries of theory when, at the meta level, we could simply take a step back and reevaluate in a more holistic manner.