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Old 07-05-2010, 08:45 AM   #635
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In a nutshell, I think human behaviour can be explained by self-interest. When you understand peoples' motives, you understand their behaviour.
I wonder to what extent we need to think of ethics at all outside of philosophical debates. Applying Occam's Razor seems to eliminate it from any discourse about how people actually behave, or want to behave.
Exactly!
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