GS IV Master Class By Piyush Kamal Ex-IRS

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Master Class [135]: The Implications of Ethical Gaps for Individuals: Part (2)

Master Class [135]: The Implications of Ethical Gaps for Individuals: Part (2)

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Master Class [135]: The Implications of Ethical Gaps for Individuals: Part (2)
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The psychological study of the mistakes of the mind helps to explain why a parent might overweigh the risks of a vaccine relative to the risk of a disease for the sake of her or his own child. Going a step further, bounded ethicality helps to explain how a parent might act in ways that violate her own ethical standards—by putting other people’s children in danger— without being aware that she is doing so.

Philosopher Peter Singer’s book The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty provides ample documentation of how our limited awareness

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