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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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Oct 04, 2016
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Moral Machine
I recommend the book Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene, which treats this topic at book length.https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/d...
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> Since there is no objective standard of morality, and since "morality" is just a fancy word for "things that people consider good or bad," we probably just have to look out into the world and see whether advertising is against the morals of most. Given that we see little great outrage over the use of advertising, even among those who are aware of its risks, I have to conclude that advertising is morally justifiable.This is a bold statement (italics) and you run into a circular reasoning by the end of that sentence (advertising is morally justifiable because some people are okay with it). May I suggest the following summer read: http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/dp... and http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/17/moral-tribes-jo... and then http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115279/joshua-greenes-mor...