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0 pointscgio1y ago0 comments

That reads like a bad rationalisation of evil. Survival at the expense of someone else is not survival, it's the law of the jungle. The law of the jungle in the jungle is not evil, but we can do better than that, and we broadly expect better than that from others. So we should do better, even if sometimes to the intentional detriment of our profits and bonuses.

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DrScientist1y ago

Depends on whether you define evil by actions or motives.

I'd argue that the use of motives to define evil is often used as a - when they do it it's bad/ but when I do it it's fine - excuse.

For that reason I'm not really interested in the 'evil' part of this conversation - rather more what drives perceived bad outcomes.

So all I'm saying is fear is a big driver of many of those bad outcomes. That's not to justify it - but rather understand it as a first step to fixing it.

Note I'm also not saying whether the fear is rational or not.

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