• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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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

            I don’t care what deontologists believe. They value their own sense of self-righteousness and moral superiority over the lives of other people, and that’s evil. If you would rather see a woman raped than commit an act of violence against her rapist because committing violence is always wrong, you are evil. If you accept that there are situations where committing acts of violence aren’t necessarily wrong, you aren’t a deontologist and don’t get to use it as an excuse not to pull the lever.

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                11 months ago

                Then you’re not a deontologist. It’s definitional. Actions have inherent moral value, regardless of the situation. If something is ever not permissible, then it’s always not permissible. That’s what deontologists believe, isn’t it? If not, then you’re still taking a consequentialist stance on morality, but with extra steps that allow you to claim that your own inaction is actually the right thing to do, but only when you decided not to take action.

                If you don’t think violence is always wrong, then what’s your excuse for not pulling the lever, or voting for the person who would cause less suffering? To my eyes, those are situations where the “violence” I’m commiting is permissible because it leads to less suffering than inaction would.

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                  11 months ago

                  then what’s your excuse for not pulling the lever

                  the categorical imperative. if I were tied to the track I would not want someone to send a trolley hurtling at me when they have the choice not to do that.

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                    11 months ago

                    Regardless of whether you pull the lever, you are sending the trolley hurtling at someone. You don’t get to say you didn’t choose for the 5 people to die. Walking away from the lever is as active a choice as pulling it. Deontology is just an excuse to not do the right thing when it makes you feel bad.

                    If you were tied to the track, there would be a 5 in 6 chance that you’re among the ones that the trolley is already hurtling towards. With your own reasoning here, pulling the lever is desired by far more people than not pulling the lever. Doesn’t that mean you have a moral imperative to pull it?

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                  11 months ago

                  Then you’re not a deontologist. It’s definitional

                  wrong. what does kant think we should do about murder?

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                    11 months ago

                    I don’t know, and frankly I don’t care. You reply too much. Enjoy the blood on your hands when you see every Palestinian dead and every American woman who has a miscarriage jailed because you allowed Desantis to win in 2024. At least you can pay yourself on the back and say “it’s not my fault, I didn’t want him to win, but the guy who wouldn’t have funded the genocide of the Palestinians and stacked the supreme court with religious extremists was mean to people!”

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              11 months ago

              You’re not a deontologist, so I’m not going to take your opinion on what I 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.

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            11 months ago

            That’s totally incorrect. I value the lives of the people that aren’t going to die. Unlike you, I don’t make decisions based on how I personally feel about them, but rather what the outcome will be.

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              11 months ago

              if you think the ends justify the means, you should look into eugenics! very interesting stuff!