Re: Right answer - Wrong reason
What is your stance on "right reasons but wrong answer"? Is that wrong too? Here I mean thinking it through correctly, getting all the important steps right, but making a careless error, omission, or oversight and getting the wrong answer.
Suppose you have a choice of living in
community A - in which everyone routinely gets the right answers for the wrong reasons, or
community B - in which everyone routinely gets the wrong answers for the right reasons
Which would you prefer to live in?
For me it's A by a country mile. I don't have the time and energy to get inside everyone's mind, nor do I feel obligated to do so. I do feel, however, that I have a right to live in a community in which moral actions are the norm, even if no one knows how to articulate why they do what they do.
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