RE: Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics
January 25, 2018 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2018 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So, after all of this, how instructive does either thought problem seem with regards to practical moralities or even consistency in morality?
I think it's kind of cool that we've gone through a "history of ethics" and even a history of these thought experiments in having the conversation - our shifting opinions and comments closely mirror how that played out in academia, lol. Basis established, thought problem proposed, modified, at some point found to be wanting or relying on arbitrary limitations of moral schemas. Agreed with, disagreed with, said to be entirely uninformative in principle, etc etc etc.
I think it's kind of cool that we've gone through a "history of ethics" and even a history of these thought experiments in having the conversation - our shifting opinions and comments closely mirror how that played out in academia, lol. Basis established, thought problem proposed, modified, at some point found to be wanting or relying on arbitrary limitations of moral schemas. Agreed with, disagreed with, said to be entirely uninformative in principle, etc etc etc.
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