RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
May 20, 2016 at 2:09 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 2:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 20, 2016 at 1:43 am)pool the great Wrote: And behind every one of those lies a whole lot of selfish interest.-and? I think you may have gone off the rails in your elaboration of the family-before-strangers and weak-before-strong bit, but meh. As to the latter, you ask why, but I've already given my answer. The strong are assumed to be more capable of helping themselves.
Quote:Morality is fascinating,I'm starting to think what morality actually means is the ability of a person to construct their self interest in such a way as it is interpreted as the best for the group -interest.I'd agree-ish.
Quote:So in short, the most moral person is the one who has their self interest aligned with the group interest.Might explain all this incredibly public "who's more moral" dick waiving, huh?
I think I have to mention, lol, that I didn't offer any of those up as moral instructions or value judgements. Only my priority list for action, instilled in me by god knows who, god knows when.
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