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Bratmontoday at 5:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Don't ethics courses make people less ethical because they teach people how to come up with ethical justifications for straightforwardly bad things?


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m_duponttoday at 6:12 PM

One of my favourite tweets, which unfortunately I can't find again was:

"My ethics teacher has gotten his sons girlfriend pregnant. I think about this often"

Reply: "To be fair, you have to be really good a ethics to get away with that"

not_wyomingtoday at 5:56 PM

Interesting. I don't know. Do you have specific sources you're thinking of?