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 will become impossible to track. So acting in alignment with guess... (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 will become impossible to track. So acting in alignment with guess... (read more)