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Originally Posted by tripwires
You felt guilty about voting against me, right? To make up for it you'll have to tell me your secrets.  |
I did feel really guilty… until I saw that you won anyway.
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Why would I feel guilty after knowing them? This is just making me more and more curious. Tell meeee. Where do I even begin to ask? I need a rough idea of what it's about in order to draft some questions.
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You'd feel guilty that you intruded on something strange, and wonderfully interesting, but perhaps a little mean, and maybe quite inappropriate. That kind if sums up my way of thinking. My mind, and all the pearls that live inside its murky waters. So is that a rough idea?
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Well, it's a question of doing something to save some people and killing one person as a result of your action versus doing absolutely nothing knowing that people will die. You know there's no liability under civil law if a passerby sees a drowning man and does nothing and the man dies? It makes sense legally but what the law allows isn't always what is moral...
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I'm sorry, I'm not in the right mood to talk about this. I'll respond properly when I'm not dreaming amongst the stars.
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The context in which this trolley thing was brought up was the question of whether it's right or permissible for the state to shoot down a hijacked plane carrying innocent passengers to avoid it crashing into another civilian building, 9/11-style. I think intuitively it's not right. But it's not an easy question.
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Likewise. The above applies. Sorry.
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Most people apparently aren't willing to sacrifice the fat man though. Okay, let's take the fatness out of the exmaple - you have to push another person onto the tracks to save the 5 people. I think it's even worse than the first scenario because your involvement in his death is more direct.
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Ditto.
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You are very bad. 
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Probably.
I am having strange sensations tonight. It's fabulous.