I think the premise of transposing “software design patterns” to ethics, and thinking of them as building blocks for social construction, is inherently super interesting.
It’s a shame the article really doesn’t deliver on that premise. To me, this article doesn’t read as someone trying to analyze how simpler heuristics compose into more complex social orders, it reads as a list of just-so stories about why the author’s preferred policies / social rules are right.
It did not leave me feeling like I knew more about ethics than before I read it.
I think the premise of transposing “software design patterns” to ethics, and thinking of them as building blocks for social construction, is inherently super interesting.
It’s a shame the article really doesn’t deliver on that premise. To me, this article doesn’t read as someone trying to analyze how simpler heuristics compose into more complex social orders, it reads as a list of just-so stories about why the author’s preferred policies / social rules are right.
It did not leave me feeling like I knew more about ethics than before I read it.