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-The mayor, in "do the right thing"
I think the bigger problem is that people mostly disagree on what the right thing to do is.
I still find it useful to play it back in my head to remind myself to actually think whether what I'm doing is right "nyan, always do the right thing".
I think that we agree on enough that if people "did the right thing" it would be better than the current situation, if not perfect.
That's not at all clear.
In fairness, people aren't great at deciding what the right thing is, but I still agree with you; most people are not wrong about most things. For example, boycotts would work. So well.
OTOH, every abortion clinic would be bombed before the week was out; terrorist attacks would probably go up generally, as would revenge killings. You could argue those would have positive net impacts (since terrorists would presumably stop once their demands are met? I think?) but it's certainly not one-sided.
Unclear. Some people have very bad ideas about what constitutes the right thing and their impact might not be canceled out.