The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics: the more you try to do good, the more you get blamed
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-06
The author invokes the "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics": once you observe or interact with a problem, the moral burden falls on you — even if you make it slightly better, you're blamed for not doing more. He adds that this dynamic disproportionately penalizes those who genuinely try hard to do the right thing, and says he wants to correct for that bias as much as possible.
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