The Book of Gehn

Self-Licensing

December 5, 2020

Doing good things has a “moral boost” on the self-concept, then a person subconsciously get “self-indulgent” and makes permissive in the future to do bad actions.

The person no necessary needs to do the good action to have the “moral boost”: she can commit to do it in the future and that is enough to have the boost.

Even the person does not need to do anything. The boost can be transferred from a group that the person identify herself as belonging to.

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Self-Licensing - December 5, 2020 - Martin Di Paola