I don’t buy it as a massive update about morality or psychology from the events themselves but a massive update about optics.
This will be a relief if true. I am much more worried about people not having principles (or their principles guided by something other than morality) than people being overly concerned about optics. The latter is a tactical concern (albeit a big one) and hopefully fixable, the former is evidence that people in our movement is too conformist or otherwise too weak or too evil to confront moral catastrophes.
This will be a relief if true. I am much more worried about people not having principles (or their principles guided by something other than morality) than people being overly concerned about optics. The latter is a tactical concern (albeit a big one) and hopefully fixable, the former is evidence that people in our movement is too conformist or otherwise too weak or too evil to confront moral catastrophes.
I don’t think they know they are concerned about optics. My suspicion was that the bad optics suddenly made utilitarian ideas seem false or reckless.