hate the framing of this article. it’s like we’re all robots or something and not organisms that actively participate in our own development. i mean using protestant artwork depicting sin is just pure ideology at that point. there’s more i could say but it’s a credulous blog post that uncritically parrots an abstract
(apparently the author’s name is the socialist antagonist from the Fountainhead?)I have no opinion on the article but I forgot on the site cheating is also within the purview of the dialectic and we’re supposed to be on the side defending it
True
People like the author of this blog post like to view the world as a precession of causally disconnected events, so an individual’s actions can only be framed as an inherent tendency to an objectively moralized outcome
This is only testing how consistently people cheat in some highly contrived games.
It is pretending that an experiment asking some students to play bridge or poker (made up examples) are completely different situations comparable to the range of ethical complexity of situations like lying to the SS about hiding jews in your attic or lying to your spouse because you’re cheating, it’s all the basically same thing right?
One of my parents has almost no emotional regulation and lying was a way to avoid being screamed at and generally failing people’s expectations with unmedicated ADHD makes it easier to tell a small lie than “I’ve known I needed to do something for weeks and have thought about it every hour of every day but didn’t do it until the last second, sorry.”
