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The general vibe amongst our peers is definitely that repugnance is dumb and anachronistic.
I’m probably somewhere between you and the median on that. I do think we should be more open to reexamining cultural taboos but also less arrogantly dismissive of them.
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To me it's cool to question them and question inconsistencies. I just think the tone matters, and also the whole "oh we just have to trick them around it" attitude is pretty smarmy.
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Because imo the more economists dismiss moral concerns as something illegitimate to be dismissed, or more charitably, "navigated around", or "reframed" as the article suggests, the more annoyed I get with them.