When Fairness Meets Kindness: How ChatGPT Helped Me Refine My Own Reasoning
I once took leave from work, but my colleague pushed me to return early.
Months later, he fell ill — and I asked him to return early.
His comeback? “What happened to your kindness preach?”
ChatGPT called this an ethical symmetry trap — when fairness/reciprocity collides with kindness/moral consistency.
It’s not right vs wrong, but value vs value, and the tension is pure cognitive dissonance.
The AI even gave me a one-line test for next time:
> If this were reversed tomorrow, would I want my present choice to be the rule?