Mandarin paradox
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Mandarin paradox
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The Mandarin paradox is an ethical parable used to illustrate the difficulty of fulfilling moral obligations when moral punishment is unlikely or impossible, leading to moral disengagement. It has been used to underscore the fragility of ethical standards when moral agents are separated by physical, cultural, or other distance, especially as facilitated by globalization. It was first posed by French writer Chateaubriand in "The Genius of Christianity" (1802): The paradox is famously used to fore
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Ethical parable by Chateaubriand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_paradox
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2023-03-01T18:54:13Z
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