supererogatory

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"By the way, thank you for "supererogatory", I didn't know there was a word for "good but not morally required to be done".

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more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

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"By the way, thank you for "supererogatory", I didn't know there was a word for "good but not morally required to be done".

It being permissible means it's a supererogatory feature of your moral life, in that you don't have to do it.

But a system where doing a good job is strictly supererogatory doesn't tend to lead to satisfactory outcomes either.

You're going to be in debt for quite some time if you take this loan" would be nice but it's also supererogatory: capitalism doesn't usually breed such saints.

Nor is there any power that will reward you in this world or the next for your supererogatory devotion to "purity" in programming.

The rest of us can try to avoid them, but morality-wise, it looks to me more supererogatory for those in a position to do so rather than a moral obligation.

Is CO2Stats capitalizing off people's supererogatory desire to do good by nature, regardless of whether there are no benefits?

The principle was merely that people who are not directly affected by X can particularly benefit from listening to people directly affected by X. It was even a supererogatory framing of the recommendation.

If you tell someone to do something not-morally-obligatory-nor-supererogatory which they think wrong, and they do it, then you have caused them to behave poorly, which is something you should not do.

Some actions are supererogatory -- morally praiseworthy but not morally necessary.

It overstates the moral imperative, however, by casting people as agents of the dragon, making them actively responsible for the death of others [1].The truth of the matter is that working to defeat mortally is supererogatory -- as a young Spock put it, an act which is morally praiseworthy but not morally obligatory.