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is blameworthy
adjective
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
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What is blameworthy is how Cadillac has gone about the transformation.
This explains, for example, why selfishness is blameworthy whereas stupidity is not.
From the fact that a person is blameworthy it does not follow that it is appropriate to blame them.
If the claim that overconfidence is blameworthy can also be justified (see below) then the only reasonable conclusion is that (OH) is offering a personal level, vice explanation of diagnostic error.
Alternative approaches to "debiasing" are considered and it is argued that overconfidence is blameworthy only if it is understood as a personal level epistemic vice rather than a sub-personal cognitive bias.
In von Schlabrendorff's estimation, Schacht's opposition to the Versailles Treaty is understandable, perhaps excusable; his having financed, and thus in a very real sense having made possible, German rearmament is blameworthy but, it seems, not damning.
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Although one cannot be blameworthy if one lacked the control necessary to avoid blameworthiness, one's degree of blameworthiness can increase if the risk one takes comes out badly due to circumstances one could do nothing to avoid.
Blame should be confined to those who are blameworthy.
Paradoxically, people feel psychologically safer when leaders are clear about what acts are blameworthy.
If it results from a lack of effort, perhaps it's blameworthy.
And, arguably, you are blameworthy because it would not have been any skin off your nose to flip that switch.
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