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All good design is moral design, and only moral design can ever be good.

Nonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims. There's been no shortage of good design used for vile aims, and there's tons of good causes with poor design.



Your disagreement with the author -- if it can really be called a disagreement -- completely vanishes if you categorize designs along separate good-evil and effective-ineffective axes.


Not using those exact terms, but the article discusses this explicitly as well.


Nonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims

Nonsense. How do you define "effective" without aims?

I believe the author's point of view is that an aim must first be moral to be good a aim, and this leads to his statement that you quote.




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