D'Sousa's Razor

D’Sousa’s Razor: Identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the Medium article: The Merchandising of Virtue" - May 27, 2017 "Kids with rich parents talk about “white privilege” at such privileged colleges as Amherst –but in one instance, one of them could not answer D’Souza’s simple and logical suggestion: ‘Why don’t you go to the registrar’s office and give your privileged spot to a minority student who was next in line?’ Hence the principle: If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life. and If your private actions do not generalise then you cannot have general ideas. This is not strictly about ethics, but information transfer. If a car salesman tries to sell you a Detroit car while driving a Honda, he is signalling that it may have a problem." The video Taleb is referencing is: SO SATISFYING: Dinesh D'Souza absolutely shreds SJW over "white privilege" - Young America's Foundation Published 09 Jun 2018. Recorded at Amherst College. If you hold an intelectual ideal, but your real world actions do not reflect or enforce this ideal. Then your actions cancel out this ideological stance. You cannot say to the word "I am a vegan" and claim the moral virtue for such an identity, but occasional eat chicken. The act of eating the chicken cancels out any moral or ideological virtue or superiority claimed by being vegan.