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bbleeker comments on Wild Moral Dilemmas - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 12 May 2015 12:56PM

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Comment author: bbleeker 13 May 2015 02:30:41PM 1 point [-]

All the FAE says is that people tend to attribute things to other people's innate characteristics, when in fact their circumstances may be much more important, but in their own case they explain any bad acts by pointing at the circumstances. It doesn't say that people don't have any innate tendencies at all.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 19 May 2015 01:13:29AM 2 points [-]

In fact, it's just as valid to say that the FAE is about our refusal to admit some of our innate tendencies are bad.