Quotes About Ethics

Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: if you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks— not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk onto others and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it.

The worst problem of modernity lies in the malignant transfer of fragility and antifragility from one party to the other, with one getting the benefits, the other (unwittingly) getting the harm, with such transfer facilitated by the growing wedge between the ethical and the legal.

If you see a fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud.

It took me an entire lifetime to find out what my generator is. It is: We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. Everything good (aesthetics, ethics) and wrong (Fooled by Randomness) with us seems to flow from it.

Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

And many of the problems of society come from the argument "other people are doing it.

how people can cherry-pick ethical rules to fit their actions.

how they use public office as a means to satisfy personal greed.

There is no problem if people have a conflict of interest if it is congruous with downside risk for themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche got the point: Sympathy for all would be tyranny for thee, my good neighbor.

2. No socialization of losses and privatization of gains.

The best slave is someone who is overpaid and he knows it

perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized

For Seneca, the Stoic sage should withdraw from public efforts when unheeded and the state is corrupt beyond repair. It is wiser to wait for self-destruction

the researcher has the incentive to select the experiment that corresponds to what he was looking for, hiding the failed attempts.

you may be committing an injustice to others by favoring him.

There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society.

notion of alternative accounting: $ 10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $ 10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.