Transcripts For CSPAN2 Justin Tosi And Brandon Warmke Grandstanding 20240712

Thats good evidence that maybe you care too much in this one instance about what this instance is doing foryou and not enough about what it would do for other people. Who is supposed to be helping. Now look, it could be that you just happen to the case where it so important that someone say something. That even if your grandstanding, its still the right thing to do you should even in that case go in knowing that what youre doing is not optimal. It would be better if you werent motivated to seek status for yourself and if you were primarily just going for helping others. But its good to ask. Justin is right that one thing we didnt point out yet but that we discussed in the book is in might be okay in some cases to grandstand. Youre perfectly comfortable with that. Grandstanding may be more no different than lying in this instance, sometimes it would indicate a live but it doesnt mean that its great or laudable but it might be the best of a set of pretty bad options. So the thought is that grandstanding everywhere is not to be done although we shouldnt be giving us too much license to do it. There may be cases where its just the thing to do, we have to do it but we already in the book theres a strong presumption against lying or riding but theres astrong moral presumption against grandstanding. So heres the thought, if you can do all your advocacy, activism and protesting those are all wonderful things but if you can do them without trying to seek for yourself status, youre going to be more morally aboveboard and probably more effective than if youre trying to seek status for yourself and trying to make moral discourse, moral progress a vanity project. I think thats an excellent note to end on. We have more questions but unfortunately weve runout of time for today. Justin and brandon thank you very much for joining us. Thank you to all our viewers for watching. The book that weve discussed today is grandstanding, the use and abuse of moral talk and its available in print today so you can findit on amazon , on oxford, anywhere else youd like to find books and there will be additional materials posted on this event page and a recording of this lecture so thank you again to all our guests and our audience and have a wonderful afternoon. Nobel prizewinning activist mall at your saucy has launched a book club in connection with little right eye, a book club that offers selections by notable figures such as professional basketball player stefan curry and author susan orlean. The book club intends to promote quote, the voices of authors the world too often neglects. Jeffrey number nine earlier this month at the age of 75 and he was the author of several books on language and a regular contributor tothe National Public Radio Program fresh air. In other news last week the association of american publishers, the Authors Guild and American Booksellers Association wrote a joint letter to the chairman of the house antitrust subcommittee critical of amazon and in the letter they said quote, amazon no longer compete on a level Playing Field when it comes to Book Distribution but rather owns and manipulates the Playing Field leveraging practices from across its platforms appear to be well outside of their and transparent competition. Also npd bookscan reports print books sell sales were up over 14 percent for the week ending august 15. Although nonfiction sales saw another week of positive sales up 16 percent