Good is part a system of different stakeholders so it is important to recognise interdependencies between different perspectives on good.
In my attempt to make good more doable, it would be tempting to look at good in the comforting isolation of one frame and one perspective at a time. However, this will most likely not suffice, as each perspective influences the others and each action by one actor will influence other stakeholders. If, for example, we focus our efforts to make people do the right thing solely on policies for individual employees in a company, there is a risk we will fail to do justice to the ‘spirit of the policy’ that was probably conceived on the societal level. And if we would focus on fines as a way to motivate organisations to comply to laws and regulations, we might forget to hold individuals responsible for potential violations accountable.
Read my next post on another complicating factor, moral diversity.
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