I suppose there are some very different kinds of reputational costs, which backtracking will reach differently. So paying a reputational cost for the movement of appearing associated with a behavior that is considered morally incorrect in some cultures (for instance, being associated with substance abuse, or with unusual marital practices) might have significant social costs in the future, for the individual and the movement alike.
However, thinking of how people feel embarrassed that they may say a sentence wrong, blush at the wrong time, slip on some statement, I tend to think people are over-calibrated about these minor, non-moral types of embarrassment. This sort of embarrassment grows frequently out of status anxiety, and this kind does not feel particularly costly.
So I fully agree that as it grows larger, reputation should matter more, specially when it comes to reputation that mirrors our moral instincts.
I agree with this. I should clarify that the types of thing I am generally concerned about is coming off as too abrasive, too negative, too amateurish, or too associated with legal but disliked ideas that aren’t part of our core considerations.
I suppose there are some very different kinds of reputational costs, which backtracking will reach differently. So paying a reputational cost for the movement of appearing associated with a behavior that is considered morally incorrect in some cultures (for instance, being associated with substance abuse, or with unusual marital practices) might have significant social costs in the future, for the individual and the movement alike.
However, thinking of how people feel embarrassed that they may say a sentence wrong, blush at the wrong time, slip on some statement, I tend to think people are over-calibrated about these minor, non-moral types of embarrassment. This sort of embarrassment grows frequently out of status anxiety, and this kind does not feel particularly costly.
So I fully agree that as it grows larger, reputation should matter more, specially when it comes to reputation that mirrors our moral instincts.
I agree with this. I should clarify that the types of thing I am generally concerned about is coming off as too abrasive, too negative, too amateurish, or too associated with legal but disliked ideas that aren’t part of our core considerations.