Mastodawn

I'm beginning to suspect that some core deontological programming is starting to cause significant bugs in ethical reasoning across the entire system.

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Taggart 3d ago

I'm really struggling with the idea that the responsibility to correct for corporate evil resides with individuals, and that failing to do so constitutes some form of evil itself.

It would seem tantamount to castigating individuals for not recycling "enough" when the true cause of pollution lies with industry.

It would seem a way for capital to coerce the pro-human and anti-capital to tear each other apart, causing nothing but self-inflicted wounds.

Then again, blithe oblivion to whence one's resources come also seems irresponsible.

But like, I have work to do that is more important than choosing the least impure tool every goddamn day.

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Paddy Duke

@mttaggart I lean more towards deontology than other philosophies, but I broadly agree. At the very least, policing individual ethical ‘purity’ while states and corporations run amok is an inefficient use of that energy.

That said, I still think over-indexing on utilitarianism has contributed significantly to the state we’re in now.

A sentence I see far too often is some version of, “Putting aside the ethical concerns, and harms to X, [product/tech] has some very impressive uses for Y.”