Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readJan 5, 2025

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Sorry, I don't believe that. Nothing can be evaluated by feelings - absolutely nothing.

One of the interesting things is that 73% of women make decisions based on their feelings, and 23% of men do. Those people, no doubt, do measure things by feelings.

How do feelings tell you that something is wrong? If something hurts, it not necessarily wrong. If something makes one angry, it is not necessarily wrong.

Ethics are determined by evaluating what the outcomes will be. In a very simplistic example, if 1/3 of the population will die if a certain path is followed, and 2/3s will die if another path is followed, and everybody will die if the third path is followed.

In this case, the most ethical cause of action is where 1/3 of people die. This is where the military ethos, that some soldiers die so that the greater society can live comes from.

Ethics and not determined by feelings - never.

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