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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do not try to tell me I don't know basic ethics when you've never even heard of a major school of thought.

OK buddy, I have. Thanks. So I'll continue.

The entire purpose of the trolley problem is to highlight disagreements between different branches of moral philosophy, and to interrogate our moral intuitions.

As I said. Right. We start with a basic problem and diverge from there to see where the point you decide to not divert the trolley appears. If you don't ever want to divert the trolley then there's no point.

No offense but an ethics professor who was in the CIA sounds like the setup to a bad joke, and I'd ask you to appreciate my restraint in not clowning on that.

Which is why I mentioned it... You're a strange one. It was interesting because he had knowledge of some pretty controversial ethical decisions that actually made for good lessons. Basically the trolley problem in real life, and where the actions were pretty fucked up.

But if you were taught about the trolley problem in an ethics class, and the things I just said weren't mentioned, then you were taught poorly.

I brought them up... What?

The purpose of such a class is not to give you objective right-or-wrong answers, it's to inform you about a variety of perspectives and encourage you to identify and question your preconceived beliefs.

Correct. However, we start from a position that we generally all agree on or we don't get anywhere. We can ignore the people who want people to die because they aren't really thinking about ethics, at least not in a sense almost anyone else would agree with. The basic trolley problem is the starting point because the vast majority of people will agree with pulling the lever because it's the only reasonable option.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If you don’t ever want to divert the trolley then there’s no point.

That is incredibly untrue. There's plenty of point to the problem highlighting differences between moral frameworks that tell you to pull the lever and those that don't. Again, you were taught about this incorrectly. Doubling down on "deontology doesn't exist" just makes you look even more ignorant.

Which is why I mentioned it… You’re a strange one. It was interesting because he had knowledge of some pretty controversial ethical decisions that actually made for good lessons. Basically the trolley problem in real life, and where the actions were pretty fucked up.

Are you trying to self-own? The CIA has done all sorts of obviously unethical stuff (often justifying it with the framework you just presented) and working for the CIA is inherently unethical. It's like saying you studied ethics under Sauron. It's no surprise that he would teach you all sorts of wrong ideas and bad ways of thinking about things.

I brought them up… What?

You brought up deontology, did you?