>> Professional ethicists and moral philosophers do not, and generally do not claim to, act morally better than others.
That is a little like saying people who teach music don't claim to play an instrument very well. Universities are full of professors who can't do the thing they teach about very well. But I think we should be skeptical of people who study a thing they can't practice.
It’s like saying people who study music theory don’t have to be skilled players of musical instruments. And they don’t.
You can be skeptical all you want of ethics/morality as a field of academic research! I think there are some good reasons to be. That doesn’t mean the researchers are hypocritical when they sometimes act immorally (as all inevitably will on account of being humans), or that it’s ironic or whatever.
I'm not particularly skeptical of "ethics/morality as a field of academic research". I am skeptical of people who teach in a field without being particularly skilled in it. I mean a person who teaches communication without being an above average writer or speaker. A person who teaches business without experience in commerce. A person who teaches film making or video game making without a professional career. They could be good theorists, I just have had too many personal experiences with professors without much real world experience teaching me things that didn't stand up after I had professional experience.
People who study ethics are more capable of rationalizing unethical conduct as a product of their study:
If you showed the same obviously unethical act to both a layperson and an ethicist and asked them, purely as a thought exercise, to present a collection of ethical justifications for what they saw the ethicist would almost certainly have an easier time doing so and would produce arguments which were more convincing (at least to ethicists) due to their familiarity with accepted frameworks.
It might be reasonable to guess that as a consequence ethicists overall may have a greater capacity for unethical conduct than arbitrarily selected members of the public (controlling for other factors).
You didn't understand what he said at all and you are wrong. I ask you this... there are very different ethics and morals around the world, even many differences in ethics and morals between your home and your neighbors, so which ethics or morals should you have to be able to teach ethics and morals? The ones you have? lol
That is a little like saying people who teach music don't claim to play an instrument very well. Universities are full of professors who can't do the thing they teach about very well. But I think we should be skeptical of people who study a thing they can't practice.