Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071115/sc_livescience/oddlyhypoc risyrootedinhighmorals
On Dec 2, 2007 5:39 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
Perhaps it's worth all of us remembering that it's easiest to make bad choices when we're convinced we're on the side of right.
Thanks for that, Dan.
-Matt
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 05:56 -0800, Matthew Brown wrote:
On Dec 2, 2007 5:39 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
Perhaps it's worth all of us remembering that it's easiest to make bad choices when we're convinced we're on the side of right.
Indeed. This is especially enlightening with our recent case with Durova, and (from a quick glance) that of [[WP:RFAR#Matthew_Hoffman]] as linked to by Charles.
KTC
On 12/3/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
What does this have to do with the English Wikipedia? These excursions into moral philosophy are really off-topic.
Steve
On 12/2/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/3/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
What does this have to do with the English Wikipedia? These excursions into moral philosophy are really off-topic.
He might be addressing "ends justify means" thinking on WP
On Dec 2, 2007 8:41 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/3/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
What does this have to do with the English Wikipedia? These excursions into moral philosophy are really off-topic.
Discussing moral philosophy, isn't that how our co-founders met?
More on topic than the definitional difference between private and secret, anyway.
On 12/2/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071115/sc_livescience/oddlyhypoc risyrootedinhighmorals
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On Dec 2, 2007 5:39 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071115/sc_livescience/oddlyhypoc risyrootedinhighmorals http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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