[ExI] morality

[efc at swisscows.email]

Hello Tara,

On Fri, 19 May 2023, Tara Maya via extropy-chat wrote:

> Part of letting people learn from their mistakes includes learning from others' mistakes. I believe that the longer a society is
> free, the more people with in develop an ethic of personal responsibility (and mutual trust). However, when people are "rescued" from

Ahh... if you add that, and the extended ability to learn from others
experiences codified into text, then it makes much more sense. Thank you
for the clarification.

> their mistakes, what others learn is that it's fine to live irresponsibly, because someone else will bear the cost and so the
> irresponsible behavior spreads. 

Yes I agree completely. Modern sweden is based on rescuing other people
from their mistakes to they never learn. This might work for the moment,
but causes pain in the long run.

Best regards, 
Daniel

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>       On May 19, 2023, at 11:38 AM, efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I do not agree with you. There are plenty of people in my
> experience who are capable of learning from others experience, and
> studying so they don't have to repeat mistakes but can go straight to
> good solutions.
> 
> For some people, yes, sadly it seems like your quote applies, but given
> the fact that our civilization has progressed, I think in general it
> does not apply.
> 
> Best regards, Daniel
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