(October 7, 2015 at 2:41 pm)Evie Wrote: You're very welcome Rocketsurgeon. Yeah that's a common problem in applied ethics it's called "the trolley problem".
I had run into "the trolly problem" scenario before, but never in that particular framework of discussing the philosophy of moral reasoning. It was a discussion (in class) of the ways our brains evaluate "lesser of two evils" scenarios. I don't know why I didn't apply it to the philosophy of morality. The one I find most fascinating, in the former regard, is the Milgram Experiment, which we also discussed that day.
A book I read in 2013, called The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo, deals with the Milgram Experiment (he and Dr. Stanley Milgram were colleagues and friends) as well as Dr. Zimbardo's own Stanford Prison Experiment.
If you really want your mind blown on the way human beings operate, read that book!
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
