• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          So given the choice between someone actively demanding genocide and someone who’s passively supporting a genocide, you’d sooner see more people murdered than vote for the lesser evil?

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              11 months ago

              So you would sooner choose to let more people suffer than involve yourself in seeing fewer people suffer. What an awful person you are.

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                11 months ago

                in the trolley thought experiment, I don’t pull the lever because I’m not a murderer

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                  11 months ago

                  Yeah you are. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You don’t get to not involve yourself, not pulling the lever is as much an active choice to kill 5 people as pulling the lever is a choice to kill one.

                  You value your own sense of self righteousness over the lives of other people, and that’s awful and selfish.

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                    11 months ago

                    not pulling the lever is as much an active choice to kill 5 people as pulling the lever is a choice to kill one.

                    that’s not what deontologists believe

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                    11 months ago

                    You value your own sense of self righteousness over the lives of other people, and that’s awful and selfish.

                    and I’d say you value your own sense of power over the lives of the person you killed.