I like this as a description of things that actually happen… but thinking about what should happen, ask culture seems to me like the clear winner. Ethics is a difficult subject, but I like Kant’s attempt at grounding it in reason: if your action makes it impossible to act in that very way, that can’t be a good action. It’s the behavioral equivalent to a logical contradiction. And I think that’s the case with guess culture; it’s impossible to sustain, in part because people will get things wrong, and in part because it leads to more and more echoes and they... (read more)
I like this as a description of things that actually happen… but thinking about what should happen, ask culture seems to me like the clear winner. Ethics is a difficult subject, but I like Kant’s attempt at grounding it in reason: if your action makes it impossible to act in that very way, that can’t be a good action. It’s the behavioral equivalent to a logical contradiction. And I think that’s the case with guess culture; it’s impossible to sustain, in part because people will get things wrong, and in part because it leads to more and more echoes and they... (read more)