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When your team questions whether gamifying virtue is ethical innovation

Our development team built this feature to help users be more virtuous in their daily habits, but now we're realizing we're basically gamifying ancient wisdom traditions and none of us know if that's respectful innovation or cultural appropriation dressed up as product development.

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The attempt to make virtue accessible through technology reveals the gap between ancient wisdom and modern mechanisms.

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“Where Are You with Confucian virtue ethics and technology?”

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