I have a potentially interesting question for you Bob. Lets say it wasn't some other person, but yourself. You are presented with the following choice...
Espero que no te importe que haya usado el traductor de Google para que lo lean nuestros angloparlantes. I google translated for our curious English s...
I don't mind answering, just wanted to point out that we can make an infinite number of variables problems like the trolley problem, but the OP is try...
I believe those are both of the variables involved. You have to figure out if you do, or do not value one life over five. The second part is responsib...
The key to a thought problem is to solve it within its limitations, then afterward extend it into interesting discussion. None of the factors are rele...
If you change the thought experiment, then its a different question. Is what I'm stating wrong within the confines of the basic trolley problem? Equal...
Which is fine. I can acknowledge that smoking is immoral, but do it anyway. We can say that lying is wrong, yet lie when it conveniences us. The quest...
That's fair. If you're looking for a more complete moral theory, the trolley problem is useless. Proper philosophy is built upon several small argumen...
Because morality is extremely complicated, and you can start with a very simple example that's easy for others to comprehend. In a proper philosophica...
Yes, because this is again, not an emotional problem. Morality is not about our emotions. If you can save 1000 over 999, in this very restricted situa...
To me, yes. Because the problem as presented is a math problem, and nothing more. We don't know the value of the people on the tracks. So at that poin...
Yes, in the context of his example. You mistakenly assumed I meant for all examples, which is normal mistake. If you reread my entire passage however,...
Just like they would have condemned the declaration that Earth orbited around the sun. Or many other superstitions and examples of ignorance over the ...
Unfortunately this isn't a good example. The situation adds an extra variable of expertise involved. The participants didn't fully understand the situ...
I think our differences are that I'm not declaring a principle. I'm declaring, "In X scenario, this is the correct answer". You seem to think I'm exte...
That's a statement, not an argument. Please explain how the arithmetic is not crucial when the example only indicates the number of the people on the ...
Its not the same, its a variation with a similar theme. My answer is to the specific scenario they gave. Of course the answer is different with a diff...
That is a different scenario. What you have is one person on the tracks that can walk away vs five tied down. You're asking to switch the track and te...
Here's a fun little game to play that might answer your question. https://trolleyproblem.io/ If of course its simply a matter of numbers, the answer i...
I was an American high school algebra math teacher for five years. One of the problems with the way we teach math in the West is we teach formulas for...
Genuinely rare. We're freaks of nature. Intelligence at our level is highly difficult to achieve when you consider all of the demands of basic surviva...
Just letting you know I read it. I got my gloom shot in the arm for the day from it! Yes, I'm aware of all of these things, but humanity finds a way. ...
Timothy, I'm not really seeing you address the idea of innate ideas. You're more addressing the idea of innate nature. Locke doesn't deny we have inna...
I have no idea. He put two incoherent sentences together, and I've been trying to get him to explain what he meant by them. Instead he wants to climb ...
Didn't you tell me earlier you believed what was moral was for humans to flourish? How exactly are you helping that right now? Enough trolling my thre...
To note again, there is a previous post that puts out the proof that existence is good in any objective morality. Its the link at the top. Feel free t...
The quote is an opinion that does not address the logic that I wrote which lead to the conclusion. Here is the original logic if you were unaware of i...
How is it not necessarily so? Where's the fallacy? If all are true, then the logic is true no? If you have an issue with one being true, which one? If...
No, that's not a fallacy. Feel free to challenge the definition. If you can give a reasoned counter why that should not be the definition of what is g...
Absolutely. Its partly why I'm posting it here. Looking for criticism and challenges. Thank you, those are kind words. I don't want to leave the intro...
Did you read the original post? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15203/in-any-objective-morality-existence-is-inherently-good/p1 This is wher...
I would say our opinions do not determine what is objective. Objectivity doesn't care. However, society does not have to accept objective conclusions....
No doubt our prejudices incline us towards wanting certain outcomes. But I try to hold myself to a higher standard than that. If you read the OP, you'...
Perfect! Yes, I have no way of proving that there is an objective reality. Only that if there is, this is a logical result. So if you decide to believ...
This is all a fine opinion, but did you read and understand the OP? Because I show through the argument that if there is an objective morality, existe...
If you would expand on your points a bit, I might be able to engage with you. I've tried responding based on what I thought you were trying to say, bu...
I continue with the next steps here. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15217/if-existence-is-good-what-is-the-morality-of-non-life I'm not sur...
Statements like these are subjective opinions and don't address the OP. Feel free to point out where the logic of the OP is flawed and we can discuss ...
So then its possible. Do you see you keep making contradictions to yourself? So we can imagine without an image. Which is still just imagining somethi...
Just because you cannot imagine it, does not make it impossible right? So it is imaginable then. And an eternal existence can still be empirical, so t...
1. Where is your proof that an objective moral good could not possibly be an empirical existent? 2. What is a transcendent guarantor and what is your ...
I didn't think I sidestepped. I thought I addressed this with the grandfather and the grandson next to the explosion, and only one being able to live....
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