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Axiology, Morality, Law
Scott explores moral offsetting, introducing a framework distinguishing axiology, morality, and law to argue that we can offset axiological but not moral violations.
22 min read 3,353 words
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ethical dilemmas
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Essays on ethical dilemmas
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Ethics Offsets
Scott Alexander examines the concept of 'ethics offsets', exploring its applications and ethical implications from simple cases to extreme scenarios.
10 min read 1,454 words
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Last Thoughts On Virtue Ethics
Scott argues that virtue ethics is not merely intuitive morality and that relying on intuition alone fails to address complex ethical dilemmas.
5 min read 720 words