• Donkter@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Virtue ethics nonsense.

      I shouldn’t kill that mass murderer before he kills again because murder is murder and all murder is evil mmkay?

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      So if you are given the option to steal $5 from an orphan or allow 10k people to be slaughtered and if you don’t choose it goes to 50% chance on which one happens you choose to make no choice so you don’t have to choose evil?

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        I think Geraldo would steal the $5 and call it a stupid analogy because that’s not evil if he gives them $10 first.

        Of course, the funny thing about the quote is that it’s from a game that forces you to choose between evils constantly with not much in the way of creative problem solving beyond making sure you investigate beforehand.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      Here it goes into hypothetical terrain.

      Save a ship with 50 people or the other further away with 100?

      Let the truck run over someone else or over you?