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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 May 2015 08:46:28PM *  1 point [-]

And again a poll:

How much moral judgement you have to exercise in your daily life (consider typical times)?

Do you think this is a typical amount?

I am working in a position where I have responsibility for people (see examples below) ?

To make this more precise I define "to exercise moral judgement" as matching aginst the following cases (feel free to suggest more):

  • deciding how to treat a person based on their behavior
  • deciding which thing to buy based on how the purchase affects people (e.g. in other countries)
  • deciding on actions which affect one or more persons directly or indirectly (e.g. as a parent, doctor, boss or social worker).

In each of these cases only if that decision is neither an impulse nor a cached thought (e.g. you have that way other times before).

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 May 2015 09:05:33PM *  3 points [-]

I have four sons and it is not unusual that there are fights (verbal or physical) and I have to consider how to deal with that in compilcated ways. Mostly there is uncertainty about the facts and I have to balance the interests of the offender(s) with possibly affected other sons (what kind of role model is that; should that matter,...) and also how that affects me.

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