Allah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?lockmessage-squaremessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down119
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareWhat are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?lockAllah@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square133fedilink
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months 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-up1arrow-down1·2 months agodeontologists still get splattered, even if it’s the correct choice.
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agobut they have no responsibility for the circumstances.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months 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-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoit is immoral to flip the switch and murder someone. that doesn’t make the situation acceptable
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoI don’t disagree, it doesn’t change that you need to own the bodies as an acceptable loss.
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agono, you don’t need to accept it.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agodoesn’t make much difference to the bodies
minus-squareNSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months 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.