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Applied Ethics · Chapter 5

The Practice Under Pressure

MacIntyre gives you the most useful vocabulary in the chapter: a practice generates internal goods you can only get by doing it well, while the institution that houses it necessarily deals in external goods. First sort the goods. Then turn up the pressure and watch which ones vanish, in what order, and who ends up carrying the injury.

1 · Sort the goods of the practice

2 · Now squeeze the institution

How hard the institution is pushing on external goods45
Press Work another shift repeatedly. Watch what happens to the baseline — that ratchet is the point of this panel.

What kind of place this is

Attention on internal goodsOn external goods

What it costs the people inside it

Moral distress right now0
Moral residue accumulated · 0 shifts0
Moral injurynot present

Whose vice is this?

THE PRACTITIONER’STHE INSTITUTION’S

You have a budget. Spend it.