Fair enough, but I’d still say that most people do “good” (by which they mostly mean culturally approved things) as a strategy to achieve some more basic end. In support of this proposition, I’ll note that “good” is defined by different people in different ways that all generally correlate with cultural approval in common cases but strongly diverge in matters of basic principle. See Scott Alexander’s: The Tails Coming Apart as Metaphor for Life.
Fair enough, but I’d still say that most people do “good” (by which they mostly mean culturally approved things) as a strategy to achieve some more basic end. In support of this proposition, I’ll note that “good” is defined by different people in different ways that all generally correlate with cultural approval in common cases but strongly diverge in matters of basic principle. See Scott Alexander’s: The Tails Coming Apart as Metaphor for Life.