(November 20, 2017 at 7:26 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(November 20, 2017 at 6:37 pm)Bow Before Zeus Wrote: I prefer to be locked in a room with Person C who is incapable of having any violent thoughts. That way I am guaranteed that he will not act in a violent manner.
That's cheating. The purpose of the thought experiment was to gauge the ethical relevance of thoughts vs actions. C'mon A or B. Which is it?
But your person A/B experiment is not a fair experiment. Clearly B is the preference because he follows his unethical thinking with ethical thinking. So ethical thoughts win out again. I'm still choosing the person that has more ethical thinking processes.
The point I was trying to make is that the person with the most ethical thought processes (ie has 100% ethical thoughts and 0% unethical thoughts) is the best preference as he is uncapable of any unwholesome words/actions. Purely because of his different thought processes - ie ethical only thought processes.
