In some sense, argues Christopher Meyers in the lead article in this, the July-August 2021, issue of the Hastings Center Report, to be a good ethicist is to be an activist. The question for the ethicist, and for Meyers, is about how hard and far to push: how much personal risk to shoulder, how much to tick off colleagues, how much institutional disruption to create, how much to look like an angry protester. Meyers argues for aiming at the middle, in two senses. In a time of anger and activism about relentless, pervasive, overwhelming wrongs, the question of balance is increasingly front of mind. A set of commentaries we solicited both welcome Meyers's call for activism and push for more.

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伦理学家和活动家

从某种意义上说，克里斯托弗·迈耶斯 (Christopher Meyers) 在 2021 年 7 月至 8 月发行的黑斯廷斯中心报告的主要文章中指出，要成为一名优秀的伦理学家，就必须成为一名活动家。对于伦理学家和迈耶斯来说，问题在于推动的难度和距离有多大：要承担多少个人风险，有多少要惹恼同事，要造成多少制度破坏，在多大程度上看起来像一个愤怒的抗议者。迈耶斯主张以中间为目标，有两种意义。在对无情的、普遍的、压倒性的错误充满愤怒和激进主义的时代，平衡问题越来越成为人们关注的焦点。我们征求的一组评论既欢迎迈耶斯呼吁积极行动，又推动更多。