YouTube Makes Us More Responsible
Added 2017-12-22 21:49:07 +0000 UTCHello lovely patrons! Here's a new video - it's about access to knowledge and what that might mean for our moral responsibilities! Enjoy!
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7:27, "On the quality of our hearts" should be a topic for existential inquiry. The first, and most essential (IMnsHO) act or moral agency is the (in)authentic decision of what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Should one dive into an experience with deeper focus, or should one defocus and search for alternative perspectives? One can only be judged to have ought to make those decisions for which one has sufficient awareness that a decision needs to be made: it is impossible to make a moral decision without knowledge of alternatives, and possibly some guessing about consequences... but the choice to seek alternatives (or not) is a prior choice. Ergo, I suggest that pluralists (people who welcome a plurality of experiences/perspectives/sources/inputs) are fundamentally morally superior to those with "blinders on" ideological purity, but this duty also implies the capability to estimate moral preferences for alternative choices, which implies some kind of prior moral criterion with which to form preferences. There is no a-priori criterion, so we are left to our own art judging preferences: how much time, for example, is appropriate to doubt our own moral compass watching "the other sides'" YouTube channels that we can meet minimal pluralism duty? There's a topic to explore.. what is the gamut of a plurality in one area of interest in YouTube? Are all pluralities in YouTube equally pluralistic (no: eg. video games and gender)? We don't need socioeconomic class demographics to understand the limits of the post-YouTube's moral gravitas. <a href="https://digiday.com/media/demographics-youtube-5-charts/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://digiday.com/media/demographics-youtube-5-charts/</a> We just don't understand the distortion field of YouTube as well as that of pre-Internet mass media distortion.
Jeremy McMillan
2017-12-27 04:58:29 +0000 UTCI'm not sure the university gaffe story about the pig head and the Jewish center is a great example for universal principles. There are obligations a student has to the institutions to represent them favorably which exceed more general or universal ethical duties all people have to society/people at large.
Jeremy McMillan
2017-12-27 04:23:09 +0000 UTC
