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Couldn’t you just as easily say “I would never sit still on that trolley, no matter how many people I would save by doing so. Killing an innocent pers...
June 06, 2024 at 04:06
The only world where freedom is possible (but not always actual) is in the mind. Aside from the mind, everything is determined. And the mind itself ca...
June 06, 2024 at 03:52
Have you known anyone who could describe a coherent picture of a society of people where there is no ownership? I haven’t seen it on this thread for i...
June 06, 2024 at 03:25
I posted a bit earlier in in the thread, then noticed recently it was up to 23 plus pages so I was curious if everyone had gotten to the bottom of the...
June 06, 2024 at 02:59
Then stop talking about at two minutes or after two minutes. That’s some other scenario. Don’t you see that? Two minutes or more is outside the univer...
June 05, 2024 at 23:39
And that’s precisely why the question of whether the lamp will be on or off at two minutes will never present itself. If you want to talk about how la...
June 05, 2024 at 22:49
How is that? How is it on or off at or after two minutes? It cannot be a function of a switch that operates by switching every half of the prior inter...
June 05, 2024 at 22:20
So what are we disagreeing about? Whether this is paradox, or whether there is an answer to question 3? I don’t think there is an answer to question 3...
June 05, 2024 at 22:06
Not if you want to answer the question in scenario three. Or more precisely, not designed to function at or after two minutes.
June 05, 2024 at 21:54
Exactly the point I am trying to make. The moral questions in the trolley problem are more about the trolley builder, the trolley driver who abandoned...
June 05, 2024 at 21:52
No, that’s a different equation. That switch is more easily predicted. The switch on Thompson’s lamp requires some serious calculation to determine it...
June 05, 2024 at 21:38
Haha! Ok, so the switch clicks at 1 minute, then it clicks again at 30 seconds more, then it clicks again at 15 seconds more, then again at 7.5 second...
June 05, 2024 at 21:18
I don’t understand. How do you ever arrive at the two minute mark? 1 minute, half a minute later, quarter minute later than that, etc., infinitely…you...
June 05, 2024 at 20:52
Not helping a kid floating face down can easily be wrong morally/objectively, even if they have to get soaked. That’s not comparable to being given in...
June 05, 2024 at 18:55
That’s not what I am saying about omission. I am saying there must be an affirmative duty prior to there being an intentional omission of acting on th...
June 05, 2024 at 17:50
Exactly. So ethics arises not in the practical facts, but in the intentions behind them. So you are saying the scenario is asking us whether, in these...
June 05, 2024 at 17:43
It just does a poor job of highlighting the omission. So the other guy on the trolley who is just sitting there unaware of anything, omitting to do an...
June 05, 2024 at 16:48
It’s not an omission if you intend to kill five people. It’s how you carry out your intention. It’s a physical act to stay seated in order to kill fiv...
June 05, 2024 at 16:33
If I had a duty to save the most people when riding a trolley that had no proper conductor, than sitting still would be an immoral act of omission. Bu...
June 05, 2024 at 16:25
No it’s not. What if in this situation I want to kill five people? My choice is killing five people. How do I actively effect that choice - by activel...
June 05, 2024 at 16:10
Not self image. Just trying to locate where the moral question really is, where the moral issue really arises. The moral question is why does ANYONE h...
June 05, 2024 at 15:52
Could caring instead, or also, be the most immanent, most intimate expression of the one who is being religious (or just being)? The place where inste...
June 05, 2024 at 05:10
I may have gotten ahead of myself a bit. So we distinguished between the choices (1 or 5, good or bad) and the consent (I pull the lever, or I stay se...
June 05, 2024 at 03:26
That’s why I think it would take courage to do the truly moral thing on the trolley and not participate at all. I guess fear is a kind of force that m...
June 05, 2024 at 03:08
I agree with that, and that it highlights the difference between the choice “to save lives” and the consent to make that choice, by pulling the lever....
June 05, 2024 at 03:02
I did address that above but probably badly. But I’ll do better. Sometimes when you are driving you take your foot off the gas, maybe down a small hil...
June 05, 2024 at 02:39
I don’t know about exempting, so it’s a good question, but force certainly creates a distance for responsibility to cover. Maybe I did over simplify. ...
June 05, 2024 at 01:51
Exactly. There is no paradox caused by an infinite staircase, because an infinite staircase is a square circle, barely conceivable if conceivable at a...
June 04, 2024 at 21:46
The heart of the trolley problem is this: “Without any context or explanation, if you were forced to kill either 1 person or 5 people with no other op...
June 04, 2024 at 21:24
Exactly the point of my last post. :ok:
June 04, 2024 at 04:55
Modeling is not physical, so the models built with infinity will never pose a problem when descending stairs. There is no paradox because the paradox ...
June 04, 2024 at 04:40
Kill 1 or kill 5. In this scenario, I choose whether the trolly stays left and kills 5 or goes right and kills one. I have the same control in my choi...
June 04, 2024 at 04:37
Is was just told not to add anything by Philosophim. So the trolley driver thought that the single person was the son of his neighbor and he hates his...
June 03, 2024 at 22:23
Completely agree. That’s what makes these thought experiments of such limited value. It’s an unreal scenario and doesn’t factor in intent, which is es...
June 03, 2024 at 22:13
Morality has to do with intent. So is the variable here inaction of watching people die, or affirmative action pulling the lever to kill one of them? ...
June 03, 2024 at 21:33
All of the variables and so many more facts are important to understand before we can judge morality from this. Did I just wake up and find myself at ...
June 03, 2024 at 21:02
I’m just saying the notion of an infinite staircase is impossible to conceive as steps and groups of steps are unitary wholes, and infinity never unif...
June 03, 2024 at 19:46
Exactly! You have to take the thing you call a “half” as a single whole unit before you can take some measure again. A half is just a measure conceive...
June 03, 2024 at 19:36
A single thing that can be grabbed is defined as you say as a unit. A single thing. Like one whole step. So now we have conceived of the unit. We’ve d...
June 02, 2024 at 15:11
The distance between your eyes is a whole. You need to grab that finite whole thing first from the physical world to then posit the concept of half of...
June 01, 2024 at 15:03
The rest periods at step 1, instead of being 30 seconds long, is that really just 2 times as long of rest than at step 2? Or is it 4 times as long as ...
June 01, 2024 at 05:59
Trying. Good example. That’s a realistic conception of communism. No ownership, the theory or imagination, applicable in reality. I agree, the real li...
June 01, 2024 at 03:34
Why did you quote me? I am physically trying to imagine a society of people where there is no concept of ownership. The best I can do is imagine a soc...
May 31, 2024 at 23:28
Physical individuation. In humans becomes identity formation. Which becomes a “mine” by the time anyone can speak. Maybe. I think we have to resist an...
May 30, 2024 at 21:59
Problem solved.
May 30, 2024 at 21:47
This means, we live in a world drenched and submerged in the concept and practice of ownership. From here, soaking wet, we have to imagine a possible ...
May 30, 2024 at 21:44
Got it. So if everything is pooled and shared, how is that an example of no one owns anything? What happens to things after they are pooled and shared...
May 30, 2024 at 21:24
Isn’t the idea of communal ownership a counter to individual ownership? It’s not a counter to ownership. If everything is pooled and shared, ownership...
May 30, 2024 at 20:45
Just as long as you don’t hope to see it, because hope is more of a religious thing. But yes, any day now. Nuclear holocaust, rogue AI, weaponized vir...
May 24, 2024 at 20:10
As soon as humans are eradicated.
May 24, 2024 at 20:03