cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8485777

Burn all US politicians amerikkkaqin-shi-huangdi-fireball

Americans acting like their duoparty system is democratic
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is like basic trolly problem shit.

The trolley problem itself is shit.

I think the question is a very, to put it mildly, useless question. It's a typical example of an analytic philosophical thought experiment, which is has basically nothing to do with real life. No one has ever been in a situation as it is described in the trolley problem.

That doesn't mean that sometimes, unfortunately, we are in situations where we are where we experience a moral dilemma. Of course we're often in a situation where we experience a form of moral dilemma. But moral dilemmas are always concrete, and you always experience them under specific conditions, in a specific context that is very complex. You have specific means to make the decision, and practically never are universal moral principles even helpful to make that decision.

As a matter of fact, moral principles are I would say empirically never really used to actually decide moral dilemmas. They are used after the fact to justify a decision, which is a typical form of moral communication.

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