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> Do you think leaders should have moral training?

I suspect that they'd then learn even better what to say to make good impressions, while continuing exploiting others and society as much as always nevertheless.

If a person want to rob a bank, would you think moral training would stop him? (Repeating "it's not my money" 10 times)

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Well, are we willing to do serious moral training? For example, if you make Elon Musk live with a family that relies on Medicaid, would that be sufficient to convey the experience to such a person? Moral training requires exposure and being uncomfortable. You have to inspire someone to feel the other side, and I agree, just telling them doesn’t appear to work.

It would be interesting if something like that was part of school, say, everyone had to live or work a month with <something> that help them understand how e.g. being dependent on Medicare can be.

Seems tricky to arrange though? Moving in together with a family just because they live on Medicare sounds intrusive

I think ethics is what we are really talking about, not morality policing. If there was ethical enforcement and codification of generally acceptable ethical behavior to go along with it, you’d see changes.

I hold no hope of changing Elon Musk’s morales but making it hard to run directly counter to conducting yourself in an ethical manner would make his morales to a certain degree irrelevant as society / community standards would hold bad actors accountable and in check or face consequences

> make Elon Musk live with a family that relies on Medicaid

Interesting idea, if that changes his stance on empathy?

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