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Originally Posted by IsiliRunite
Total Responsibility required over / x people = less personal responsibility.
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I don't accept the premise of this. Ethics isn't distributed and if effect watered down by the process of expanding ethical responsibility across a group of people. For example, I'm an unabashed misanthrope. But in practice that means I hate everyone in general and hate no one in particular.
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Originally Posted by IsiliRunite
Is it really a surprise to you that people follow the temporary social norm rather than the permanent ethics that they claim to have?
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By temporary you mean situational. Situation of one's individuality being muted by group mentalities or situations where the inviduality of the victim is muted by an authority. That's more along the lines of the kitty genovese syndrome.
I'm talking about a trend that may exist where people are being slowly desensitized to causal impacts towards other people by the process of alienation from one another. File this under the reports recently by some psychologists suggesting that things like twitter and facebook are making us "less moral" by virtue of the fact that we are replacing deep interaction between individuals with spammy updates about our experiences at the mall.