Can anybody help me out by suggesting an alternate word for “license”? Or describe what it’s supposed to mean? I’m really having trouble understanding what this post is saying.
On a related note, does anybody want to take a stab at writing a summary for this post?
A license is a kind of credential that allows one the moral/ethical/legal right to perform a certain kind of action.
In this case, I believe he’s saying that merely doing “the human thing to do” is not a credential that makes “doing the human thing” moral in and of itself.
Unfortunately his analogy is with some complicated mathematical logic.
Can anybody help me out by suggesting an alternate word for “license”? Or describe what it’s supposed to mean? I’m really having trouble understanding what this post is saying.
On a related note, does anybody want to take a stab at writing a summary for this post?
A license is a kind of credential that allows one the moral/ethical/legal right to perform a certain kind of action.
In this case, I believe he’s saying that merely doing “the human thing to do” is not a credential that makes “doing the human thing” moral in and of itself.
Unfortunately his analogy is with some complicated mathematical logic.
Thank you. That’s very helpful.
“License” merely means “permission” or “justification”.