Allah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?message-squaremessage-square132linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?Allah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square132linkfedilink
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago the whole damn trolley problem thing doesn’t have an answer. it’s a thought experiment to expose your personal ethics. deontologists never touch the switch.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agodeontologists still get splattered, even if it’s the correct choice.
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agobut they have no responsibility for the circumstances.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoDidn’t say they did. People die none the less. If that’s acceptable that’s fine, but call it what it is: An acceptable loss.
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoit is immoral to flip the switch and murder someone. that doesn’t make the situation acceptable
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI don’t disagree, it doesn’t change that you need to own the bodies as an acceptable loss.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agodoesn’t make much difference to the bodies
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoexcept that you’re not locked in a booth, so there actually are things you can do besides pull a lever.
doesn’t have an answer. it’s a thought experiment to expose your personal ethics. deontologists never touch the switch.
deontologists still get splattered, even if it’s the correct choice.
but they have no responsibility for the circumstances.
Didn’t say they did. People die none the less. If that’s acceptable that’s fine, but call it what it is: An acceptable loss.
it is immoral to flip the switch and murder someone. that doesn’t make the situation acceptable
I don’t disagree, it doesn’t change that you need to own the bodies as an acceptable loss.
no, you don’t need to accept it.
doesn’t make much difference to the bodies
except that you’re not locked in a booth, so there actually are things you can do besides pull a lever.