QUOTE: I am pleasantly amused by the following from Tyler Cowen:
"Many people are knee-jerk deontologists and believe in common sense morality. Making them more thoughtful will not always improve the final outcome, but rather can increase their ability to rationalize wrong acts." [italics mine]
Because, of course, being a deontologist means you probably haven't spent enough time thinking about morality...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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