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MY PATH TO OPEN BORDERS Bryan Caplan

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MY PATH TO OPEN BORDERS
Bryan Caplan
Citation (APA): Caplan, B. (2014). MY PATH TO OPEN BORDERS [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com

Parte introduttiva
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 1
MY PATH TO OPEN BORDERS bryan caplan
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La libera immigrazione non è che libero commercio applicato al lavoro La libera immigrazione: aumenta la ricchezza globale e abbassa la diseguaglianza globale Inconvenienti? Psicologici: la povertà e la diseguaglianza che resta è + visibile E il welfare? Altra ragione x levarlo di mezzo. Oppure si consideri la soluzione elementare: non applicarlo agli immigrati Non esiste filosofia che nn tuteli l' immigrazione Il riscatto libretario: accusati di opporsi a redistribuzioni e quote, ora possono dire che gli altri (chi restringe l' immigrazione) fanno altrettanto Le leggi antiimm. come il nuovo jim crow
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 20
free immigration is just free trade applied to labor.
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LA VISIONE ECONOMICA
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immigration restrictions trap hundreds of millions of people in Third World poverty.
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PRIGIONE DELLA POVERTÀ
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 26
immigration would drastically increase global wealth and drastically reduce global inequality.
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FATTI E PERCEZIONE
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visibility of the remaining poverty and inequality would sharply rise.
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Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 32
When critics pointed to the existence of the modern welfare state, I was dismissive: “Yet another reason to abolish the welfare state!”
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WELFARE MINACCIATO?
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 44
On immigration, however, all serious moral theories appear to support open borders. If everyone’s utility counts equally (utilitarianism), if we should treat everyone as an end in himself (Kantianism), if social institutions should maximize the welfare of the worst-off group (Rawlsianism), if inequality is intrinsically bad (egalitarianism), if it’s wrong to ban capitalist acts between consenting adults (libertarianism), how can anyone justify prohibiting poor foreigners from selling their labor to willing domestic employers?
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ETICA E OPEN BORDERS
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Libertarians are cruel because they oppose involuntary redistribution from rich to poor? But what are immigration restrictions– supported by mainstream liberals and conservatives alike– if not involuntary redistribution from poor to rich?
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LA REDISTRIBUZIONE LIBERTARIA
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 51
Libertarians are callous because they oppose laws against discrimination? But what are immigration restrictions if not laws that make discrimination
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ANTIDISCRIMINAZIONE LIBERTARIA
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 63
If immigrants are a burden on the welfare state, for example, why not simply restrict immigrants’ benefit eligibility instead of restricting immigration itself?
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CAPZIOSITÀ DI CHI SI OPPONE X RAGIONI DI WELFARE
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 72
most voters probably have a zero-sum model of immigration: More jobs for immigrants automatically means fewer jobs– and lower living standards– for us. Economists, in contrast, know that these zero-sum intuitions are wrong. Specialization and trade are the keys to prosperity– and civilization itself.
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LA PAURA DELLO ZERO SUM
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 95
I really do consider existing First World societies to be morally comparable to the Jim Crow South. Worse, actually. Under Jim Crow, blacks couldn’t legally do some jobs or live in some places in the country. Under modern immigration law, illegal immigrants can’t legally do any job or live anywhere in the country.
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APPARTHEID
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Open Borders in 4 Easy Steps Bryan Caplan
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Bisogna provare oltre ogni dubbio i gravi danni dell' immigrazione x condannare milioni di xsone alla povertà
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1. Immigration laws deny very basic human rights: The right to accept a job offer from a willing employer
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VIOLAZIONE DEI DIRITTI
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The predictable result for people born on the wrong side of the border is severe poverty and worse.
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2. To overcome this presumption, you'd have to show that free immigration has consequences so awful that they clearly overshadow the horrible consequences of restriction.
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COSA AUTORIZZA A VIOLARE QS PRINCIPIO
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3. The best social science finds that the alleged downsides of immigration are greatly overstated at best, and often the opposite of the truth. For starters: Immigrants make Americans and the world richer,
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LE SCIENZA SOCIALI NN CONSENTONO IL SUPERAMENTO
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4. Even in worst-case scenarios, there are cheaper, more humane remedies. If immigrants are really a fiscal burden, you don't have to prevent immigration. Just make them ineligible for benefits.
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IN OGNI CASO PROIBIRE È UNA SOLUZIONE TROPPO RADICALE
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Sitting on an Ocean of Talent Bryan Caplan
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Maledire il gerovital Sconcerto: come mai gli intellettuali non si dedicano al problema?
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Imagine scientists discover a new substance that reverses aging.
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ESP. LEONOLEUM
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Some years later, though, the scientists discover a trillion dollars worth of Leonium directly under the Empire State Building.
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elation.
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frustration.
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ingenuity.
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tenacity.
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During this brainstorming process, a few naysayers fret about the distributional consequences of success: "Only the rich will benefit."
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INCONTENTABILI
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"Unprecedented longevity will undermine government retirement programs." "Nursing homes will lose jobs."
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INCONVENIENTI DEL BENE
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But most people scoff at such parochial and misanthropic negativity. Getting Leonium is a great benefit for mankind, period.
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XSONA DI BUON SENSO
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Economists already know how to extract many trillions of dollars of additional value from the global economy. How? Open borders.
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OPEN BORDERS IL NS PETROLIO
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Under the status quo, most of the world's workers are stuck in unproductive backwaters.
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IMPRIGIONATI
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 133
The standard reaction, instead, is naysaying. "First World workers will lose." "Only the rich will gain." "They'll all go on welfare." "Our culture will be destroyed." "The immigrants will increase crime." The underlying attitude is not frustration at the difficulty of realizing mankind's full potential, but sheer apathy.
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REAZIONE SCONSIDERATA
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My point: Apathy in the face of unrealized multi-trillion dollar gains is absurd.
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TESI
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I'm Too Busy Fighting Tyranny to Feed My Family Bryan Caplan
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Tizio critica l' immigrato: stai a casa tua e aggiusta il tuo paese. Domanda a Tizio: che ne pensi di John (l' invasato attivista politico che trascura i figli)
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Suppose your Facebook friend, John, is a political junkie. Every day, he floods your Newsfeed with the latest political news and op-eds. He provides play-by-play coverage of protests and rallies around the globe. He travels hundreds of miles every week to personally attend these events.
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ESP. IL MALATO DI POLITICA
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 151
After a while, though, you start to wonder about John. How does he hold down a job? You soon discover that John lost his job years ago - and hasn't bothered to find another.
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c LAVORO ABBANDONATO
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 153
When criticized, John angrily responds, "I'm too busy fighting tyranny to feed my family." I think you'll agree that John is a terrible human being. Why? Because his priorities are demented. Political activism is a luxury. Before you engage in this luxury, you must satisfy your basic responsibilities to provide for yourself and your family.
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c IL LUSSO DELL ATTIVISMO POLITICO
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 159
When I point out that would-be immigrants are trying to save themselves and their families from hellish Third World conditions, my critics often respond, "They ought to stay home and try to fix their broken political systems!"
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PARALLELO COI MIGRANTI
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 164
The case against activism is even stronger if, as usual, the activist is deeply confused. Knowing that your country's policies are awful doesn't magically tell you how to improve them.
Nota - Posizione 165
SOLUZIONI DIFFICILI
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 174
Libertarians an d the Welfare State: Is It Time to Drop the Hard Line? Bryan Caplan
Nota - Posizione 174
libertari e welfare: x la linea dura argomento etico: se nessuno mi obbliga ad aiutare un parente bisognoso xchè mai dovrei aiutare uno svonosciuto? argomento secondo: il welfare minaccia il più grande programma anti povertà che si conosca: open borders
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Libertarians are widely seen as welfare-state abolitionists
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PERCHÈ IL LIBERTARIO È ODIATO?
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drop their extremism
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In this context, the negative income tax looks much less like a dangerous concession to the world-historical forces of evil.
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NEGATIVE
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I still think that welfare-state abolitionism has the force of argument on its side.
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Almost no one thinks you should be legally required to financially assist your relatives - even your indigent parents who raised you. The welfare-state abolitionist can fairly ask all of these people a tough question: If your parents shouldn't have a legal right to your help when they really need it, why should complete strangers?
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ARGOMENTO ETICO TROPPO FORTE
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Second, and probably even more compellingly, the existence of welfare state is one of the main rationalizations for undercutting the greatest anti-poverty campaign the world has ever known: immigration. (Friedman said it most clearly: "You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state." But Krugman's in full agreement).
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WELF INCOMPATIBILE CON L IMM
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help absolutely poor people, not relatively poor Americans
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Libertarian defenders of immigration are the real humanitarians in the world, and the laissez-faire era of open borders without the welfare state was America's real humanitarian era.
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IL VERO UMANITARISMO
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I'm the first person to say that there are better ways to save the welfare state than curtailing immigration. If that's your worry, let immigrants come as guest workers - entitled to work but not collect welfare.
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COTTADINI DI SERIE B
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famiglia e nazione: differenze gli affetti familiari sono reali struttura morale: tutti sappiamo che nn si può ucvidere x la famiglia ma x lo stato... la nazione crea il nemico la famiglia collabora
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Patria, Parenti, Amici Bryan Caplan
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Rigoletto
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I'm a staunch opponent of nationalism. But I'm also a family man. Isn't there a direct contradiction between the two?
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PRO FAMILY ANTINATIONALIST... NAT=>NO IMM
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Familial favoritism is a deep and ineradicable part of the human psyche,
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FAMILY NATURALE NN COSTRUOTO
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But you need coercion to make people surrender more than a pittance to their "fellow citizens."
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There is however a less obvious, but far more important difference between nationalism and familial favoritism: Despite its mighty evolutionary basis, almost everyone recognizes moral strictures against familial favoritism. Almost everyone knows that "It would help my son" is not a good reason to commit murder, break someone's arm, or steal.
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LIMITI MORALI AL FAMILISMO
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Nationalism, in contrast, is widely seen as an acceptable excuse for horrific crimes against outgroups. Do you plan to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent foreign civilians?
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The surprising lesson: familial favoritism isn't just inevitable; it's basically benign. People know that this fundamental emotion is no excuse for ignoring the rights of strangers. Nationalism, in contrast, is at once phony and dangerous.
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FAMIGLIA NAZIONALISMO E STRANIERI
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il problema è il welfare? nn concederlo il problema è il voto? non concederlo il problema è il povero italiano? sovratasa l immigrato e trasferisci
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Immigration Restrictions: A Solution in Search of a Problem Bryan Caplan
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Suppose, for example, that the complaint about immigrants is that “They take advantage of the welfare state.” If that’s the problem, the simplest solution is not the get rid of immigrants, but to make them ineligible
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IL PROB È IL WELFARE?
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What if the complaint is that immigrants endanger our political culture– in short, that they vote the wrong way? I’m sympathetic to this concern, but it’s easy to tailor a solution: Don’t let immigrants vote.
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IL PROB È POLITICO?
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Which takes us to the biggest complaint of all: Immigrants depress the wages of low-skilled Americans
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I MS POVERI?
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impose a surtax on immigrants’ earnings,
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If you find these proposals harsh, perhaps you’re right. But they’re soft as silk compared to the popular approach of keeping immigrants out and deporting those who are already here.
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TROPPO DURE?
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si scopre il gerovital e si comincia a brontolare senza che se ne faccia niente ma le risorse potenziali già esistono: sono gli immigrati
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xenofono: parli così xchè vivi ai parioli vieni a tor pignattara open borders: vivi in italia anzichè in ghana l. porta via lavoro? e le donne lavoratrici? xchè ci sono restrizioni all i. e nn alla fertilità
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Immigration: My Eyes Work Fine
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Critics of my open borders advocacy often accuse me of intellectual blindness, of living in a fantasy world of my own creation.
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CAMPANA DI VETRO
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facts about immigration I see
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1. I see immigrants - legal and illegal - working hard, without complaining,
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LAVORO DURO
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2. I see immigrants - legal and illegal - contributing far more to the world than they could possibly have done at home.
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CONTRIBUTO
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3. I see natives happy to hire and patronize immigrants
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NECESSITÀ DI ASSUMERE
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4. I see that people call me out of touch because I live in Fairfax instead of in a poor immigrant neighborhood. But they don't think themselves out of touch because they live in America instead of the Third World.
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SONO GLI OPPOSITORI A VIVERE IN UNA CAMPANA
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5. I see that almost all natives break the law on a regular basis. Almost everyone drives over 55 mph on the freeway, for starters. But few natives feel guilty about breaking laws that seem unreasonable,
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DISUBBIDIE A LEGGI IRRAGIONEVOLI
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6. The typical illegal immigrant who "went back where he came from" would drastically reduce his family's standard of living and make the world a poorer place. If following the 55 mph speed limit is unreasonable, so is following U.S. immigration law
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7. If the typical low-skilled immigrant stayed home and tried to improve his political system, he would have near-zero chance of success.
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IMPEGNO POLITICO
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8. Virtually all of the complaints leveled against immigrants also apply to many natives. I see that native women who enter the workforce make life harder for native men competing for the same jobs.
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IMMIGRANTI E DONNE
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 289
when people complain about immigrant crime, I never see them say, "Since young males commit virtually all serious crime, this is obviously only an argument against young male immigrants."
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CATEGORIE SENZA MUCCHIO
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11. Most arguments for immigration restriction are equally good arguments for government regulation of natives' fertility. But I see that almost everyone favors immigration restrictions, and almost no one favors fertility restrictions.
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FERTILITY E IMMIGRATION
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obiezoone etica alla libera immigrazione: chiudere fuori nn è omicidio ma letying die 1 se il costo di aprire è basdo kllingleting die 2 impedire alla gente di salvarsi è come uccidere
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KILLING VERSUS LETTING DIE
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common objection to assertion of the right to migrate is thekilling versus letting die distinction.
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the claim is that immigration restrictions are closer to “letting die”
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Utilitarian response: drowning children If the cost of saving a person’s life is very small, then letting the person die is equivalent to killing
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UTILITARISMO
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Libertarian response: forcibly preventing people from helping themselves is akin to murder
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IMPEDIRE ATTIVAMENTE CHE SI SALVINO
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Tell Me the Difference Between Jim Crow and Immigration Restrictions Bryan Caplan
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It was illegal for blacks to live, work, and shop in certain places. Virtually everyone today regards this as an enormous injustice. So do I. But I question the claim that modern American policy is vastly morally superior. The American government continues to mandate discrimination against an unpopular minority: illegal immigrants.
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NERI E MIGRANTI
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there were many places in America where blacks were not legally allowed to live. Under current immigration laws, there is nowhere in America where illegal immigrants are legally allowed to live.
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ABITAZIONE
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there were many jobs in America that blacks were not legally allowed to perform. Under current immigration laws, there are no jobs in America that illegal immigrants are legally allowed to perform.
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LAVORO
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You could object that our moral obligations to citizens are far higher than our moral obligations to foreigners. But that's hardly satisfactory. After all, the essence of the segregationist position was the American blacks were not fully-fledged American citizens.
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CITTADINANZA
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(a) stripping blacks of their citizenship, and (b) declaring that "All citizens are entitled to equal treatment." Would that have made the Jim Crow laws any less reprehensible?
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SOLUZIONE ALTERNATIVA ALL ABOLIZ
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Turning the Camera: The Political Externalities of the Status Quo Bryan Caplan
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The median voter wants to deprive you of the rights to (a) accept a job offer from a willing employer, or (b) rent an apartment from a willing landlord. Politicians eagerly oblige the median voter, so legally speaking, you're an unperson.
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ESP.MENTALE. TIRANNIA DELLA MAGG
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In all my years of arguing about immigration, I've never met an opponent paranoid enough to make such a claim.
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Strangely, though, political externalities of this severity already exist. There are countries that vote to deprive most people of the rights to sell their labor and rent a place to live. In fact, this is the political equilibrium in every First World democracy.
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INCUBO REALIZZATO
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Bastards, Immigrants, and Misanthropes Bryan Caplan
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Of Infants and Immigrants Bryan Caplan
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If an additional infant born in America has positive externalities, asks Adam Ozimek, shouldn't an additional immigrant who moves to America have positive externalities, too? Since the average immigrant age is around 30, that means when they've arrived they are already past the stage when they just consume society's resources, and have begin producing externalities. Doesn't this suggest that positive externality of immigrants is even larger than that for natives?
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AIMMI E BAMBINO
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keep in mind that immigrants are also more likely to be small business owners and PhDs than natives.
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IMPRENDITORI
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remittances,
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Workers do a lot more for the Third World by leaving than staying.
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AIUTO AL TERZO MONDO
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Immigration, Skill, Efficiency, and Quotas: A Conflict of Economic Intuitions Bryan Caplan
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Moderate immigration reformers usually argue in favor of more skilled immigrants. As a matter of economic efficiency, are they correct?
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MEGLIO GLI SKILLED?
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Suppose skilled immigrants earn $30,000 at home and $100,000 here; unskilled immigrants earn $1000 at home and $25,000 here. Then the efficiency case in favor of skilled immigration seems airtight.
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APPARENZA
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But doesn't it contradict the basic economics of trade? According to standard trade models, trade increases efficiency by eliminating relative prices disparities. The bigger the price ratio in country A to country B, the greater the gains to trade.
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COMMERCIO INTERNAZ

Can Reading Literature Make Us Moral? Gary Saul Morson

Notebook per
Can Reading Literature Make Us Moral?
Gary Saul Morson
Citation (APA): Morson, G. S. (2016). Can Reading Literature Make Us Moral? [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com

Parte introduttiva
Evidenzia (giallo) - Posizione 2
Can Reading Literature Make Us Moral? By Gary Saul Morson
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Plato thought fiction dangerous and regretted, for instance, the depiction of the gods as given to laughter.
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PLATONE
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During the Reformation, much Catholic art was destroyed;
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ICONOCLASTIA
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the Chinese Cultural Revolution sought to rid the world of reactionary artworks; and the Soviets, when they took power, were faced with the choice of banning pre-revolutionary literature or, as they eventually decided, reinterpreting it.
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CINESI E SOVIETICI
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reading literature will seem like a way of acquiring wisdom; it gets us off our little island in time and place and shows us how our own values might appear to others. We no longer accept our own values as the only possible ones for a decent, intelligent person to hold.
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ALLARGA GLI ORIZZONTI
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APERTURA MENTALE
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Some view such broadening as potentially dangerous. The more one regards differing perspectives as necessarily evil or stupid, the less one wants others to practice seeing the world from such perspectives.
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CHI SI OPPONE?
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Tragedy, for example, was considered pernicious for at least two reasons. First, it contradicted the official optimism of Communist philosophy, which held that it was inevitable that people would reach universal happiness. Second, tragedy affirms that the human mind is inadequate to understand the strange universe, whereas Communist philosophy held that, guided by Marxism-Leninism, people could not only understand the laws of nature and society, but also change them at will.
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COMUNISTI E LA TRAGEDIA
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Is it morally good or bad for people to adopt— even temporarily— unapproved points of view?
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Jane Austen invented a technique for allowing us to enter into the process of another person’s thoughts, and in so doing she in effect invented the realist psychological novel.
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METTERSI NEI PANNI ALTRUI. DENTIFICAZIONE
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The Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin called this technique “double-voiced words.” Here’s how it works: The author paraphrases the sequence of a hero’s or heroine’s thoughts from within. The paraphrase assumes the tone, manner, and typical choice of words of the character, and we hear how she speaks to herself. Thus, when she needs to justify herself to herself, we hear her address an invisible judge. When she wants to do something she feels she shouldn’t, we witness her talking herself into it, banishing contrary arguments, veering away at the first sign she is about to stumble onto a consideration too strong to evade.
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TECNICA DELLA DOPPIA VOCE
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there is all the difference between simply not thinking of something and avoiding the thought of that thing. That difference is visible only to someone who can follow the process of her thoughts,
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IDENTIFICAZIONE IMPERFETTA
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Jane Austen, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry James
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suddenly felt that he ought to be ashamed, and that she ought to be ashamed of the same thing. But what had he to be ashamed of? “What have I to be ashamed of?” she asked in injured surprise… There was nothing. She went over all her Moscow recollections… there was nothing shameful. And for all that, at the same point in her memories the feeling of shame intensified, as though some inner voice, just at the point when she thought of Vronsky, were saying to her, “Warm, very warm, hot.”
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ANNA DOVREBBE VERGOGNARSI MA NN SI VRRGOGNA. DOPPIA VOCE
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If I quoted this whole passage, almost a page long, it would be evident how we overhear the steps with which Anna tries to banish a truth she knows,
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BANNARE LA VERITÀ
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Another reason we need double-voicing, rather than stream of consciousness, is that the moral complexity of the sequence of thoughts depends on hearing simultaneously both the character’s thoughts and the perspective of another who might listen in.
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FLUSSO DI COSCIENZA E DOPPA VOCE
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Readers often feel that Anna Karenina and Lily Bart (in The House of Mirth), for instance, represent values they deplore. And yet those same readers— if I am an example— still feel deep compassion as Anna and Lily descend into suicide.
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AMARE CHI SI DEPLORA
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to read The Iliad or Paradise Lost is to share, however briefly, an epic perspective on events, as well as to adopt the values taken for granted by ancient Greek or English Renaissance culture. The more alien the culture, the more we are likely to encounter authors or protagonists who do not share our values. If we learn to empathize with them, and regard them as holding their views for motives no less sincere than our own, could we perhaps learn to do the same for people in our own culture, for example, who do not share our political party or social class?
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CAPIRE IL DIVERSO. MACCHINA DI TURING
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Some literary critics and teachers have tried to “de-literize” literature. They try to remove the essential literary act of experiencing other points of view by treating literature as propaganda that endorses what one already believes, or by only assigning works by approved authors with an approved message
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DELETTERATURA. ESTRARRE IL MESSAGGIO
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students are bound to wonder why they should put in the hard work to read long books only to learn what they already knew.
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IL DUBBIO DELLO STUDENTE DI LETTERE
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The more a culture wants to protect its citizens from potentially harmful viewpoints, the more it will de-literize the literary. For totalitarian regimes, intolerant religions, and morally superior social-justice warriors, the way literature can make us moral may seem like a threat to all they hold sacred.
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PATERNALISMO E DELETTERATURA

giovedì 13 ottobre 2016

Can Our Capacity for Moral Reasoning Be Strengthened? Daniel Jacobson

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Can Our Capacity for Moral Reasoning Be Strengthened?
Daniel Jacobson
Citation (APA): Jacobson, D. (2016). Can Our Capacity for Moral Reasoning Be Strengthened? [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com

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Can Our Capacity for Moral Reasoning Be Strengthened? By Daniel Jacobson
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Recent “scientific” pessimism on this score claims that what we take to be moral reasons are mere rationalizations; and that when we think we are reasoning with others, we are actually engaged in unreasoned persuasion.
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PESSIMISMO
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This extravagant view treats half-truths about the difficulty of moral reasoning as if they were the whole truth about its impossibility. The case for such strong pessimism rests not on science but scientism:
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MEZZA VERITÀ TRASFORMATE IN VERITÀ
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In the first place, the human capacity for moral reasoning can be strengthened because our general reasoning capacities are amenable to improvement. This is most readily observed by considering how people develop as they mature from children to adults. We improve at logic, whether or not we learn the fancy Latinate names for rules of inference.
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È LA RAZIONALITÁ IN GENERE CHE PUÒ ESSERE MIGLIORATA
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inference to the best explanation.
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If the lawns and streets are wet this morning, the best explanation is that it rained last night while we were asleep.
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BEST EXP
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First, haven’t behavioral economists and psychologists shown us that people are very bad at reasoning? We humans are predictably irrational
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L OBIEZIONE COMPORTAMENTISTA
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Second, what do these reflections on general-purpose reasoning have to do with specifically moral thought?
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2 OB: RAGIONAMENTO E RAG. MORALE SONO COSE DIVERSE
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people unreflectively adopt heuristics— rough-and-ready simplifying principles— that work pretty well in a wide variety of common contexts. When interested parties, including both marketers and scientists, figure out the heuristics people use, they can exploit circumstances where it fails. We commonly chase sunk costs, overvalue things that belong to us, and respond differently to equivalent scenarios depending on how they are framed. Although these failures of rationality are fascinating and important, concentration on them can obscure the fact that our reasoning works well in many other circumstances.
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LA SCOPERYA COMPORT.
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Plenty of general reasoning is morally relevant, in that it can be applied to morally significant cases and yield practical conclusions.
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RAGIONE GENERALE E RAG. MORALE
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Kids learn early that “It’s not fair” is more powerful than “I don’t want to” or just “No.”
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BAMBINI
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But quickly enough one learns that claims about fairness have to be disciplined in certain ways. You can only make a claim of fairness when you can offer reasons
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link to one of the most prominent papers in the pessimistic genre,
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The idea that the human brain is a machine built to win arguments rather than to discover the truth seizes on the fact that people are biased in myriad ways, and these biases influence their evaluation of evidence. (This tendency is not quite as dismal as it seems, since it makes sense to hold on to core beliefs and values firmly rather than continually reevaluating them, which would have significant psychic costs.) But the claim that the brain’s primary function is advocacy rather than discovery is not credible. Most intellectual tasks involve problem solving rather than persuasion; you don’t argue with a bear but hunt, fight, or flee from it. Even in social contexts, where persuasion is most important, there are obvious costs to being proven wrong. Convince the tribe that bears are harmless and your reputation is likely to suffer.
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CONTRO ADVOCACY: I BIAS HANNO SENSO. CHI NN RISOLVE PROBLEMI MUORE
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The second claim is directed specifically at moral reasoning, which it holds to be mere rationalization.
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The strongest case comes from the well-documented human capacity to confabulate about our reasons, telling neat stories about what we do and why, which do not hold up under scrutiny. Although confabulation happens in various contexts, many of which have nothing to do with value judgment, no one thinks that this phenomenon supports a global pessimism about reasons. Even if we sometimes get it wrong about what we’re doing, everyone grants that in most ordinary contexts we know both what we are doing and why. Moreover, sometimes when people confabulate a false causal story, they are still sensitive to reasons that they cannot articulate.
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PROVA RAZIONALIZZAZIONE: RICOSTRUZIONE ERRATA
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Consider one of the most frequently cited experiments
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LA PROVA VS LA RAGIONE
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subjects were morally dumbfounded by various “offensive yet harmless” scenarios, such as eating one’s dead pet dog and cleaning the toilet with the flag. That is to say, although they were quite sure there was something wrong with these actions, the subjects could not give reasons
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HAIDT
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it has serious problems, the worst of which is that it presupposes an extremely narrow conception of what can count as a good practical reason:
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RAGION PRATICA
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the experimenters stipulate that there are no harmful consequences of actions that stir up strong aversive reactions.
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STIPULATE
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one cannot simply stipulate that a type of action isn’t dangerous— that is, likely to be harmful in realistic contexts— or that it does not violate well-founded rules, such as the rule laboratories have against the desecration of corpses. The general tendencies of actions are matters of fact rather than stipulation.
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psychological literature on moral dumbfounding presupposes that the only thing that can count as a practical reason is harm. It then adopts an untenably narrow conception of what counts as harmful that ignores danger, treats well-founded rules as mere suggestions, and ignores painful emotions even when they are predictable.
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IL DANNO COME HOME UNICO MALE
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There is nothing inherently magical about being averse to sticking pins in a doll constructed to resemble your child, for instance. Magical thinking requires some false causal belief, such as belief in the power of voodoo;
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WODOO
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symbol
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While there is a science of disgust, there is no science of the disgusting— that is, of what merits disgust— and the tacit assumption that only germs can be disgusting leads to some obviously absurd conclusions.
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RIVALUTARE IL DISGUSTO
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Though one could attempt to formulate an empirical notion of what counts as an injury, say, all that would do is demonstrate that there are other sorts of harms than injuries. It is simply not in the purview of science to discover what humans ought to care about.
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L ERRORE
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the question was not whether moral reasoning is difficult to engage in honestly and, at least sometimes, harder to follow. It was whether it is possible to strengthen our capacity for moral reasoning— or
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DIFFICILE MA POSSIBILE
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The modestly pessimistic claim is true but rather obvious
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BANALMENTE VERO
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Discussion Summary
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The biggest problem with the simple story of moral judgment as expression of emotion is that nobody treats moral judgments— their own or other people’s— in this way.
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NESSUNO CONSIDERA LA MORALITÀ UN EMOZIO
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Another fact about how moral discourse actually takes place is that we do not simply make judgments but offer reasons for them, which purport to justify those judgments. We do not simply say that abortion is always wrong or permissible (or some more qualified claim).
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Although many people hold skeptical theories about moral judgment, few can consistently treat moral judgments the way those theories seem to require. And it does seem like some reasons are better than others.
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INCOERENZA DEI PESSOMISTI
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we treat moral judgments: as claims that stand in need of justification,
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There are many domains of evaluative judgment— concerning aesthetics, for instance— where it seems clear that something human must be implicated in truths about beauty.
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GIUDIZIO ESTETICO