Why do "good people" do unethical things?
Short Story: "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas", By Ursula Le Guin, 1973
http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf
Le Guin's timeless Sci-Fi short story about a profound ethical dilemma, winner of the Hugo Award
Cognitive Bias
Critique: "The Silver Bullet Syndrome: A Critique of Decision Analysis", By Tony Scarlatos, 2010
How good are humans at making rational choices? Limitations of Decision Analysis appear on page 3.
Video: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLmD_WVY-E
Video: "John Cleese on Stupidity"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVPdyYeaQU
Overestimation of competence is proportional to lack of expertise.
Bill Gates’ review of Hans Rosling’s book, “Factfulness”
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Factfulness
Video: “How Not To Be Ignorant About The World”, Hans Rosling TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world
Interactive: World Health Organization data from GapMinder.org (Hans Rosling)
https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles
Visualization of trends in world health and wealth that contradict popular misconceptions.
Factfulness 10 Rules of Thumb
https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness/instincts/
Ten cognitive biases that obscure an accurate view of the world.
“The Overton Window”, Mackinac Center
https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow
The possible is constrained by the political.
Bad Arguments
"The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments", By Ali Almossawi (Author) and Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator), Published by The Experiment, 2014
https://bookofbadarguments.com
Amusing compendium of illogical arguments
"The Baloney Detection Kit", By Maria Popova
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
Carl Sagan's rules for logical argument
Video: "The Fallacy Project: Examples of fallacies from advertising, politics, and popular culture", 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLTQi7vVsI
Bad arguments highlighted in the video:
Slippery Slope
Red Herring
Non-Sequitur
Post Hoc
Bandwagon
Ad Hominem
Appeal to False Authority
Hasty Generalization
Framework for resolving ethical dilemmas
https://crenshawconsultingassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/EESE_EthicalDecisionmakingFramework.pdf
Markula Center for Applied Ethics Framework for Ethical Decision Making
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/a-framework-for-ethical-decision-making/
Markula Center for Applied Ethics Framework for Ethical Decision Making (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqOWScCjJM&t=21s