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You agree the post I replied to was the height of elitism?

> Please note I didn't mention anything about a university education.

What do you consider "education in humanities" then, that a "tech person" is unlikely to have received?

> You can absolutely teach yourself philosophy

Again, you seem to have confused having an academic understanding of ethics with a compulsion to act ethically. I don't believe there is much linkage between the two.

> To answer your broader point, you're confusing behaving in a commonsense moral or ethical way with understanding and reasoning from a grounding in ethics.

I'm not. Your comment I replied to suggested that a lack of education in this stuff is the cause of apparent poor behavior, so perhaps it was you who was confusing those things.




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