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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 4 years ago
Maybe this was obvious to everyone else, but it's only just occurred to me that most philosophy of ethics is actually a philosophy of ethically persuasive arguments rather than of ethical behaviour, and it makes way more sense read that way.
David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 4 years ago
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Prompted by reading Phillipa Foot's paper that introduced the trolley problem, which is very overtly this (and quite good read in that light) https://t.co/RIkz5dEDwZ
David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 4 years ago
So for newsletter reasons I'm reading the original trolley problem paper and I would like to note two things: 1) In the original paper it's a tram. 2) The potholers example from the paper is much more engagingly weird and I'm surprised that this is not the one that got memed.