Part II — Dimensions · 09
Ethics
Ethics arrives late in Part II and reframes everything before it. In motion, ethics cannot be a fixed rule applied afterwards; it is the quality of attention brought to a situation while it is still forming.
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The question it turns on
What is owed to the people this decision will move?
Where the argument is contested
An ethics of attention resists codification, which makes it hard to govern. The book accepts the difficulty rather than issuing a framework.
To sit with
- — Which of your standard decisions has never been examined ethically?
- — Where would restraint be the more demanding action?