Emile comments on Should Rationalists Tip at Restaurants? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 12 July 2011 12:09:57PM 3 points [-]

I value not being a dick, and not only nobody finding out that I'm a dick.

Maybe if I was magically changed so as not to care about whether I was a dick or not, I wouldn't act like a dick in most ordinary situations because of the negative consequences of people finding out that I'm a dick. But I don't want not care about being a dick, because then I'd be a dick, and I don't want to be a dick.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 July 2011 06:04:08PM 1 point [-]

I value not being a dick, and not only nobody finding out that I'm a dick.

Could you taboo the word "dick".

Incidentally, this sounds like an argument based on virtue ethics.

Comment author: Emile 12 July 2011 08:38:49PM 2 points [-]

By a dick I mean the kind of person who does thing I disapprove of - cutting in line, abusing free resources, defecting in prisoner's dilemma-type situations, etc. I may not have a perfect reductionist-grade definition, but I have a mental concept I don't want to be associated to (and I suppose the same goes for most neurotypical humans).