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by firepoet 1914 days ago
I can't help but attempt to apply Kant's categorical imperative to this approach. Is this something I would wish as a universal rule?

What about folks who have really bad luck and participate in organizations that are a bad fit for their personality? Their score immediately goes down, and then the odds of them finding a better fit plummet. There is no "fresh start," so to speak.

If everybody used this system to make a judgment about whether a person is worthy, it feels like we would immediately create a permanent caste system. There would be social outcasts that would only work with other outcasts, because, frankly who else would want to? They are, in a word, untouchable.

So, for me, it appears this system is unethical to the extreme.

Happy to be proved wrong, of course!

1 comments

if i work with outcasts that fit my personality i get positive points and get back to the top. No? (btw. is there a formula how that score works. maybe older votes expire)