• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    If you’re going to be deontologist about it, I can understand why you’d think you don’t need to multiply the scope of JK Rowling’s impact. And I can understand why you’re ok with letting the trolley kill 4 more people than it needs to. Your morality is self-consistent, merely anathema to me. So, yeah, “I just don’t agree with you.”

    But – maybe you don’t need to mock me as though my common and standard understanding of the trolley problem is somehow idiotic. “Lemmy.ml everyone! A place where they’d willingly choose to kill 1 person to save 5 others.”

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      17 days ago

      I don’t mock your ethics, I mock your self righteousness

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        17 days ago

        I don’t understand what this means. “Here are two people, I think one of them is worse because they are doing more harm.” How is this even self-righteous?