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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
What's a controversial issue on which the average person who disagrees with you has better moral character than the average person who agrees with you?
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Stuart
@olystuart
I'm struggling to understand why someone would support an issue they don't think is supported by people of high moral character. I understand people disagreeing about what good moral character is, but this question reads more like "what's an issue you choose to have an immoral stance on" 🤔
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@vitalik.eth
the implication is that there is an easily accessible bad reason and a much less accessible good reason to support the thing
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@vitalik.eth
Alternatively, having the right opinion on some question might be a matter of intelligence, which you might say is orthogonal to (ie. a totally separate dimension from) good moral character. Each individual question also has its own idiosyncratic bias, and so some of the time you get an anti-correlation
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Kids are much less intelligent than adults, yet it is popularly believed that they have a more innocent, better moral character than most adults
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