Template:Did you know nominations/Moral blindness
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 16:32, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Hook issues unaddressed
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Moral blindness
- ... that moral blindness can make one behave in ways contrary to one's own moral principles?
- Reviewed: I still have to review another nomination and will post this here once it's done.
5x expanded by Rianahen (talk). Self-nominated at 02:20, 2 December 2020 (UTC).
- Comment: I have removed incorrect capitalisation from the hook. Can you please edit your article headings to comply with MOS:SECTIONS? Same problem there. Schwede66 16:48, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Full review needed. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:21, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
This topic seems to make too many assumptions. Consider the hook, for example, which assumes that there are moral principles and that individuals are assigned a particular set of them. But what of moral skepticism and moral nihilism, which deny that morals are real? What if people just do things in a pragmatic way to gain rewards and avoid punishment? Or what if they just go along to get along? What of slavery, for example, which was considered fairly normal throughout human history? Were the people on the list of slave owners morally blind or what?- And why is the condition temporary? What about sociopaths and habitual criminals?
- These are difficult questions and I'm not convinced that philosophy has clear answers. Our topics require reliable sources but how do we recognise them in this case? I reckon the article needs to do more address these issues before we can highlight it on the main page and make statements in Wikipedia's voice.
- And, going back to the hook, it seems obviously wrong. It's not moral blindness that makes people do things because it's an absence of constraint. Without morals, people are made to do things by other forces – coercion, orders, desire, &c.
- Andrew🐉(talk) 20:52, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Note: Nominator is a WikiEd student editor for the Fall 2020 term at UCLA. (course link) The course ends on December 15, 2020.
The nominator hasn't edited since December 13th and the course they were enrolled in has ended. As such, the nomination is now marked for closure as stale. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 09:23, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
