2008-04-25 Blaming The Unlucky

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Date:	2008-04-25
Link:	http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/blaming-the-unl.html
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Topics:	morality
Categories:	morality

Blaming The Unlucky

by Robin Hanson: “A recent working paper finds that we call the same decision immoral when it leads to a bad outcome, but moral when it leads to a good outcome. .. This makes morality look more like a social convention for who we can blame for what, rather than a direct guide to decision making.”