If you think the right question is how our choice of incentive system plays out for people in general, rather than in parsing the "culpability" of specific actors, boy do I have a moral system for you!
I understand what you’re saying. But I think even incentives aren’t clear cut. What might be an incentive to you, is not to someone else, to someone else who grew up in a different household, with different values, in a different income bracket, whatever the case. While on an abstract level I agree with you (and really appreciate the anecdote you mention in the park which was striking), as I see it, right and wrong, just and unjust, better than x or less good than y are not universal — perhaps the only universal is life and death… (or physical pain?) and then suddenly we almost have argument for the death penalty (the ultimate incentive not to do something bad) (as an aside I’m not a proponent of the death penalty). Okay now I’m rambling. Thanks for the post, I really enjoyed it, it got me thinking!!
We’re a year or two away from the sad upbringing of the swole devil from Fantasia. I’m guessing a rotator cuff tear on his birthday.
If you think the right question is how our choice of incentive system plays out for people in general, rather than in parsing the "culpability" of specific actors, boy do I have a moral system for you!
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
I understand what you’re saying. But I think even incentives aren’t clear cut. What might be an incentive to you, is not to someone else, to someone else who grew up in a different household, with different values, in a different income bracket, whatever the case. While on an abstract level I agree with you (and really appreciate the anecdote you mention in the park which was striking), as I see it, right and wrong, just and unjust, better than x or less good than y are not universal — perhaps the only universal is life and death… (or physical pain?) and then suddenly we almost have argument for the death penalty (the ultimate incentive not to do something bad) (as an aside I’m not a proponent of the death penalty). Okay now I’m rambling. Thanks for the post, I really enjoyed it, it got me thinking!!