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  • First off, thanks for answering. I’m a bit obsessed with this kinda stuff.

    I mean, there’s all kinds of ethical philosophy out there. I don’t really deviate too far from it.

    So vaguely western ethics? I mean some ethics frameworks are quite incompatible.

    In practice, there’s a lot that most people can agree on without too much thought, too.

    This is a theme I see. It’s fair to not think through it, especially when it feels obvious.

    For example, the classical case study for how being agreeable can work against doing the right thing is how ordinary and nice a lot of Nazis were, when not being ordered into atrocities.

    This is consistent with the above statements. I sorta agree, but obviously I have a different worldview.


    So my best guess given all that is that doing a bad thing from your perspective is: Doing something you consciously know will bring harm to others.

    Which I think requires:

    • Free will / Independence / a distinction between internal and external.

    Does that sound right?