More from 'Walking the Walk': unpracticed moral principles yield only thin understanding
eschwitz · x · 2026-09-12
Continuing his 'Walking the Walk' thread, Eric Schwitzgebel argues that everyday choices are the best source of concrete examples for broad livable principles—paragraph-length thought experiments are impoverished by comparison. Principles like 'don't eat meat' are hard to fully grasp without living by them: a meat-eating professor recommending vegetarianism has only a thin grasp of the life they recommend, which gives us reason to discount their testimony.
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