Hacker News with Generative AI: Morality

Age Verification Laws Are Just a Path Towards Full Ban on Porn, Proponent Admits (techdirt.com)
It’s never about the children. Supporters of age verification laws, book bans, drag show bans, and abortion bans always claim they’re doing these things to protect children. But it’s always just about themselves. They want to impose their morality on other adults. That’s all there is to it.

Politics, Censorship, Online Content, Morality

8 points by coloneltcb 2 days ago | 1 comments

Why shouldn't you give money to homeless people? (spiralprogress.com)
Singer asks if you should save a drowning child. Obviously yes! And what if you were wearing a nice suit which could get ruined in the pond? Does not matter, you still have to jump in.And what if, on your way to work every morning, you pass by a homeless man who is cold, hungry and in need of help? What then?

Ethics, Morality, Social Responsibility

51 points by paulpauper 18 days ago | 163 comments

Seeing Like a Programmer: Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards (chriskrycho.com)
Assumed audience: People interested in how we can make good software. In more than one sense of the phrase “good software”. That means not just software engineers.

Software Engineering, Ethics, Programming, Design, Morality

76 points by todsacerdoti 22 days ago | 43 comments

The illusion of moral decline (2023) (nature.com)
Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining1,2.

Morality, Social Science, Psychology, Sociology

14 points by therabbithole 42 days ago | 10 comments

Morality and rules: what my daughters learned at Chinese communist school (theguardian.com)

Education, China, Morality, Culture

10 points by beardyw 93 days ago | 3 comments

People's moral values change with the seasons (psych.ubc.ca)

Psychology, Human Behavior, Morality

7 points by gnabgib 106 days ago | 1 comments

Tolerance is not a moral precept (2017) (medium.com)