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From The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Before, ..., you made a bad thing in a good way. That I do not like. This time you made a good thing in a bad way. That is better, but not entirely. Best is to make a good thing in a good way.
We choose what thing we do and how we do them. I aspire to do good things in a good way.
The rules say we must use consequentialism, but good people are deontologists, and virtue ethics is what actually works.
For me, it evokes the similar aesthetics of virtuousness as above.
By Eliezer Yudkowsky.
For me, it evokes the similar aesthetics of virtuousness as above.