Re: BluffThis and Chezlaw\'s Weird Philosophical Contortions
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The things is that in real life, people do have to make choices. Like stem cells or no stem cells. Or even scenarios not that far removed from Sklansky's above. You don't get to waver, and inaction can be the same as consent.
Besides, these questions have already been answered. It has been decided that five kids is acceptable for a high priority target. The logic starts from there. And you're on crack if you don't think that killing 8 kids is a lot worse than 5.
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1) For the record, I def. was not saying that killing 5 is better than killing 8. Just pointing out there might be a little continuum fallacy going on here.
2) If we are being forced to make these decisions, there could be a time when we have to pick something we are morally/philosophically opposed to. You can't force BluffThis and Chezlaw to pick something and then yell at them for making a contortion. You asked them to contort!
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