Actually the accusation was not of a ‘thought crime’, but rather of doing something unethical with your thoughts.
If you believe that there are some actions that are unethical, I fail to see how some of those actions can’t be thoughts, unless you think thoughts are metaphysically different from other actions.
That seems very unlikely on the face of it (I hadn’t meant it in a specifically virtue ethics context, and Alicorn isn’t necessarily a fan), though I’d also gotten that impression from some of the phrasings in Alicorn’s recent comment. Surely though it’s an empirical question whether thinking of people in a particular way predisposes one to behave differently about them.
Actually the accusation was not of a ‘thought crime’, but rather of doing something unethical with your thoughts.
define: “thought crime” finds “labeling disapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime”
WARNING We are now arguing about definitions of words. This indicates that we are no longer in the rational part of human-interaction phase-space. /WARNING
Actually the accusation was not of a ‘thought crime’, but rather of doing something unethical with your thoughts.
If you believe that there are some actions that are unethical, I fail to see how some of those actions can’t be thoughts, unless you think thoughts are metaphysically different from other actions.
Actually I think we’re dealing in virtue ethics here.
That seems very unlikely on the face of it (I hadn’t meant it in a specifically virtue ethics context, and Alicorn isn’t necessarily a fan), though I’d also gotten that impression from some of the phrasings in Alicorn’s recent comment. Surely though it’s an empirical question whether thinking of people in a particular way predisposes one to behave differently about them.
But what did you mean by that?
define: “thought crime” finds “labeling disapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime”
WARNING We are now arguing about definitions of words. This indicates that we are no longer in the rational part of human-interaction phase-space. /WARNING