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o11c  ·  3380 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Philosophy experiment: Should You Kill the Fat Man?

What I find missing on this site is a distinction between several related, but different, categories:

* Whether an action is morally acceptable.

* Whether an action is morally optimal.

* Whether an action is morally required.

* Whether an action is ethically acceptable.

* Whether an action is ethically required.

* Whether an action is what you would do if you had time to think.

* Whether an action is what you think you would do if you had to act quickly.

* Whether an action is actually what you would do if you had to act quickly.

(Note, in this list I have deliberately left out some possible wordings, such as "ethicially optimal", which I believe don't exist.)