Ethics and Values / Unit 1 Ethics 003 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Fact-Verdict Confusion
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The idea
The fact-verdict confusion treats a report of what people do as a defense of what people do; description alone defends nothing.
In practice
A campaign treasurer caught inflating donor numbers answers that every campaign inflates donor numbers. The answer describes the field; the charge still stands.
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