DominatorX1

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If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago

Sorry man. Lemmy fatigue. I think I've had it.

If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Who's justifying?

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No I never saw "the good place".

But I've seen a dozen other things that touch this idea.

One I really like is "Utopia". 2013. British. Good music.

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that's a different thing.

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club -3 points 6 days ago

It's insight like that. Thanks

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club -3 points 6 days ago

Thanks man. You really got to the heart of it there

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's the trolly problem. So yr spending 100 to save a million

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 0 points 6 days ago

Dick and balls aside, no shit Sherlock.

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club -3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That's the same riddle. You get that, right?

And so we find ourselves without an easy answer. And so we are forced to inspect the riddle more closely. To uncover hidden assumptions and such. We might even do that in conversation, on a forum like lemmy.

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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

It's what we call an abstraction. This particular abstraction highlights a moral point.

Not bullshit. Useful and interesting.

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You get new speakers or you start your music library from scratch. Which is the first song/album you play? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 days ago

Edit: Holy Shit!...

We're like Hobbits. Very compatible with simple and to the point.

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If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? (thelemmy.club)
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EDIT Ok so it's just the trolly problem.

EDIT2 : AHA War Games 1983. "The only winning move is not to play." (We might call this the final product of a lot of smart philosophical digestion, because it's a famous movie). There's always the perfectly valid option to ditch the riddle. (Because maybe the riddle is dumb, or maybe the riddle is no better than a thousand others, utilitywise )

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King totally pussied out on The Institute ending. (thelemmy.club)
 

There were 2 forks in the road at the end there.

Fork 1) The people running the institute were being totally evil. But it was to save the world. Oh what a moral conundrum!

King's choice : oh wait no, they were actually wrong about that. They were just being dumb. As explained by the genius. So all the bad stuff they did was for nothing good and the institute was just evil.

Fork 2) The psychic kids mindmelded into a magic hivemind deity. Wow. This is certainly something amazing and new in the world .

King's choice. : oh wait no, that whole thing immediately faded away after the climax.

Why? Maybe he was hoping for a tv series, which requires no big changes and moral simplicity

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Some people talk about what they've seen but most talk about what they've heard. It sounds the same but it's a big difference. (thelemmy.club)
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What is the problem with religion? (thelemmy.club)
 

Is it the beliefs? The dogmatism? The epistemology? Something else?

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Artists, scientists and engineers have a magic trick. (thelemmy.club)
 

It goes like this : Focus intensely upon your work. Make it awesome. And let everything else go to hell.

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Everything you know is wrong. (thelemmy.club)
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I dislike it when somebody says "so" and then pauses. (thelemmy.club)
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Which do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship? (thelemmy.club)
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I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter. (thelemmy.club)
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Do you ever get phantom vibrations on your phone? (thelemmy.club)
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When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious. (thelemmy.club)
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Spirits, what are the winning numbers for the Illinois Powerball Lottery this coming Wednesday? (thelemmy.club)
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