RE: Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics
January 25, 2018 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2018 at 12:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hey, what if you just don;t like the guy, right? What if the one person in the trolley example is your own kid?
There are a great many things that compromise our moral agency, that make it seem to us as though doing the wrong thing is the right course of action. We even ake allowances for that sort of stuff in determining how we should assess the actor after the fact. No one would be surprised If I killed five people to save one of my heathens, most would understand. The families of those who died are likely to empathize even as they hate me.....but I would still face consequences for having done so, no matter how virtuous the act is perceived to be.
There are a great many things that compromise our moral agency, that make it seem to us as though doing the wrong thing is the right course of action. We even ake allowances for that sort of stuff in determining how we should assess the actor after the fact. No one would be surprised If I killed five people to save one of my heathens, most would understand. The families of those who died are likely to empathize even as they hate me.....but I would still face consequences for having done so, no matter how virtuous the act is perceived to be.
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