I’m not convinced that people, yes even the bad ones, wake up, get out of bed, and think to themselves “let’s do evil today”. Rather, I think people tell themselves lies about how their actions are morally justified for some greater good, or at least remain willfully ignorant (i.e. psychopaths), or just complicit in a rotten system (passive bystanders).
If there was a murderer who liked murdering people with blue jackets in your area, and you choose not to wear a blue jacket – is that a sign that you know you’re guilty, or just that you don’t want to be murdered?
To me, that’s a sign that they know they’re guilty.
I’m not convinced that people, yes even the bad ones, wake up, get out of bed, and think to themselves “let’s do evil today”. Rather, I think people tell themselves lies about how their actions are morally justified for some greater good, or at least remain willfully ignorant (i.e. psychopaths), or just complicit in a rotten system (passive bystanders).
Sometimes I jump on reddit and it wants me to checkout r/austrian_economics and its basically people doing just that.
If there was a murderer who liked murdering people with blue jackets in your area, and you choose not to wear a blue jacket – is that a sign that you know you’re guilty, or just that you don’t want to be murdered?
Straw man