I have this type of OCD only I am not afraid of being cancelled or called out. I am actually canceling myself. I feel ashame. At one point I felt like I didn’t deserve to live anymore. I can justify the fact that I am not afraid of being cancelled as my compulsion is to confess to the people I care the most the things I am ashamed of. My OCD is focused on the fear of acting, saying or even more thinking stuff that are against my moral values. I volunteer in non profit organization, I am an activist etc. But OCD is a disease that brings guilt, shame and doubt. It sticks to the things you care the most in world. Acting against my moral values hurting people by saying or doing stupid stuff is scary for me. My mind is anxious and sticks to the things that scares me to justify this anxiety. Did you know that many mothers who just gave birth had this OCD related to killing or hurting their child? They are so scared and anxious of hurting thé baby that they doubt that they actually did and they have to check over and over that they didn’t.
I really like the "Social Mercy Warrior" idea/phrase!
I've long felt like, if we were to perform a really comprehensive (and accurate) accounting of 'social injustice' – and we decided to allocate blame, or impose any costs, on the living descendants of past 'criminals' – that everyone would be fucked.
There's this great prayer/quote (I think) that's something like 'God grant us mercy because we wouldn't survive justice'. I couldn't find it, but it's stuck in my head (in a weird degraded form) because I think it captures an important and true aspect or morality and ethics.
This also reminds me of the 'ethical policing' that is portrayed in The Culture books: hurting (let alone imprisoning or killing) someone should be a last resort. Sadly, I think our 'ethical policing tech' is so weak that we probably need to resort to it a lot. But one aspect of what the books portray that might be a good initial focus for iterative development is to focus on preventing future harms, e.g. monitor or surveil people that have harmed others in some way to prevent them from doing so again.
The consequential logic is tricky, but I feel like _aiming_ towards 'mercy' (as a tradeoff with our ability to protect past, present, and future victims) is more likely 'correct' (ethically) than a strict adherence to 'justice' (especially as some kind of 'fixed'/'eternal' notion of justice in any detail).
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I have this type of OCD only I am not afraid of being cancelled or called out. I am actually canceling myself. I feel ashame. At one point I felt like I didn’t deserve to live anymore. I can justify the fact that I am not afraid of being cancelled as my compulsion is to confess to the people I care the most the things I am ashamed of. My OCD is focused on the fear of acting, saying or even more thinking stuff that are against my moral values. I volunteer in non profit organization, I am an activist etc. But OCD is a disease that brings guilt, shame and doubt. It sticks to the things you care the most in world. Acting against my moral values hurting people by saying or doing stupid stuff is scary for me. My mind is anxious and sticks to the things that scares me to justify this anxiety. Did you know that many mothers who just gave birth had this OCD related to killing or hurting their child? They are so scared and anxious of hurting thé baby that they doubt that they actually did and they have to check over and over that they didn’t.
I really like the "Social Mercy Warrior" idea/phrase!
I've long felt like, if we were to perform a really comprehensive (and accurate) accounting of 'social injustice' – and we decided to allocate blame, or impose any costs, on the living descendants of past 'criminals' – that everyone would be fucked.
There's this great prayer/quote (I think) that's something like 'God grant us mercy because we wouldn't survive justice'. I couldn't find it, but it's stuck in my head (in a weird degraded form) because I think it captures an important and true aspect or morality and ethics.
This also reminds me of the 'ethical policing' that is portrayed in The Culture books: hurting (let alone imprisoning or killing) someone should be a last resort. Sadly, I think our 'ethical policing tech' is so weak that we probably need to resort to it a lot. But one aspect of what the books portray that might be a good initial focus for iterative development is to focus on preventing future harms, e.g. monitor or surveil people that have harmed others in some way to prevent them from doing so again.
The consequential logic is tricky, but I feel like _aiming_ towards 'mercy' (as a tradeoff with our ability to protect past, present, and future victims) is more likely 'correct' (ethically) than a strict adherence to 'justice' (especially as some kind of 'fixed'/'eternal' notion of justice in any detail).