ChristianKl comments on We prosecute CEOs for failing to do due diligence. But with people, we call it 'faith' - Less Wrong
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What your evidence for the fact that believers actually reason that way? There are Christians who believe that everyone who isn't a Christian will go to hell after he dies. If you were right those Christians would have less of a problem killing fellow Christians than killing Muslims.
In the real world things don't work that way. The belief works differently than you propose.
Josephine won't tell you that she makes her decision to bomb the village because she considers the average Afghan life to be worth a lot less than the average Austrialian life. She might not even admit it to herself.
There are very good reasons why the behavior of a CEO is more constrained than the behavior of a mother. A CEO gets passed very specific duties via a contract. He has to act according to what the societal consensus consideres to be right. A mother on the other hand has a lot more freedom to deviate from the consensus.
I don't see how the example of the CEO adds anything to your argument.
I don't think that this post will convince anyone who doesn't already share your own notion of what 'right' happens to mean. It doesn't really address any concerns of someone who has a different concept of what 'right' means.