[ExI] Medical power of attorney for cryonicsts

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 22:24:19 UTC 2014


On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Anders Sandberg  wrote:
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> On the other hand, Eric Schwitzgebel has fairly convincingly shown that
> *ethicists* don't seem to keep promises, follow social norms, avoid moral
> framing effects, or behave like one would expect a very ethical person would
> do (it all started with his observation that ethics books are stolen more
> often from university libraries). Being deft with arguing what is good might
> not mean you behave well. But this is mainly a problem for people who think
> that teaching ethics makes people nicer; ethicists would point out that the
> validity of arguments are independent of who makes them.
>

Apparently the second most frequently stolen book from libraries is the Bible.
Go figure.

BillK



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