michael_vassar3 comments on Why Does Power Corrupt? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michael_vassar3 14 October 2008 02:35:59PM 3 points [-]

Strong agreement with the first and third paragraphs by Constant.

Here's another simple way in which morality is undermined by power. Power makes it harder not to acknowledge the sacred values trade-offs which undermine common-sense morality.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/311935/Tetlock-2003-Thinking-the-unthinkable-sacred-values-and-taboo-cognitions