{"id":8653,"date":"2017-06-01T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T04:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2017-06-01T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T04:50:59","slug":"the-merchandising-of-virtue-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/the-merchandising-of-virtue-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Merchandising of Virtue | Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p id=\"f40b\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Hence the principle:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ab43\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><span class=\"markup--quote markup--p-quote is-other\" data-creator-ids=\"anon\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"613b\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">and<\/p>\n<p id=\"88ae\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">If your private actions do not generalize then you cannot have general ideas<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"563f\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">This is not strictly about ethics, but information transfer. If a car salesman tries to sell you a Detroit car while driving a Honda, he is signaling that it may have a problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b548762658f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Merchandising of Virtue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hence the principle: If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life and If your private actions do not generalize then you cannot have general ideas This is not strictly about ethics, but information transfer. If a car salesman tries to sell you a Detroit car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medium","tag-virtue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}