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@undefined @toiletpaper @scottsantens @Shamar

Uhm.. no: to act ethically you (reasonably) need to study ethics.

I have studied ethics quite a bit, both in university where we had quite a few classes on it and in my own time.

Studing ethics is not enouth to be ethical, sure, but it is required.

No its literally not required. Obviously it can help if your trying to solve large complex problems, sure. But I know people with downsyndom who cant even read who exhibit better ethics than most people I know. If you care about people and show kindness you will likely be more ethical than someone no matter how well studied they are on the subject. At least in your day to day life. I dont expect such a person to define the ethical considerations of a nation, but that is far from saying they cant be ethical.

Being good is different from being ethical, for example. Adherence to a certain form of morality is not being ethical.

Wrong… To quote wikipedia: “Ethics or moral philosophy is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.” Similar to be ethical is the adherence to ethics. that is, the expression of moral phenomena.

But ethics is a deep branch of phylosophy and for sure I’m not qualified to teach it (over mastodon :-D)

Yes it is a deep branch of philosophy… and we are agreed, you are not qualified since you are getting even the fundamental concepts wrong, let along the deep study of the branch of philosophy which goes well beyond that.

For the record I also dont consider myself qualified to be an expert on philosophy, though I am well studied on the topic.

@toiletpaper @scottsantens