Ethics and Morality

Metaphors structuring moral reasoning — purity, accounting, balance, paths, and cleanliness.

Entries (27)

• Collateral Damage metaphor
• Come with Clean Hands metaphor
• Faustian Bargain metaphor
• First Do No Harm metaphor
• Frankenstein archetype
• Frankenstein Is Technology Risk metaphor
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree metaphor
• Good Is Up; Bad Is Down metaphor
• He Who Acts Through Another Acts Himself paradigm
• Hear the Other Side mental-model
• Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse paradigm
• Let the Master Answer paradigm
• Morality Is War metaphor
• Necessity Knows No Law mental-model
• No One Profits from Their Own Wrong mental-model
• No One Should Judge Their Own Case mental-model
• Pandora's Box metaphor
• Prime Directive Is Non-Interference metaphor
• Prometheus archetype
• Technology Is a Dark Mirror metaphor
• The One Ring metaphor
• The Willing Suffer No Injury paradigm
• Three Laws Is Ethical Programming metaphor
• Use Your Own So as Not to Harm Another paradigm
• Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down metaphor
• Where There Is a Right, There Is a Remedy mental-model
• Whitewash metaphor