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user-inactivated  ·  2701 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Do Buddhist Monks Think of the Trolley Problem? - The Atlantic

    Because of course, the greatest philosophical question of our time is why humans aren't as coldly rational as machines

One of the more prominent ones at the moment, I'd say.

    and the greatest ethical problem to be solved is how we can fix that.

Fix the fact that we aren't coldly rational? That's not the point - of the problem or of the quote. The point is: can we streamline our consciousness so that people from around the world would yield similar results by default? A very far-fetched question, grant you, and one would argue against such a normalization.



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I see.

So, you think there's enough of a difference between moral intuition and morality to justify poking fun at the confusion when it happens? I'd never think that, both being seemingly directly related to each other.

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user-inactivated  ·  2701 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see. Good points.

    when a Harvard professor has based his entire career on the trolley problem, and he hasn't understood the trolley problem

What makes you think so? Not trying to be obtuse here: genuinely curious in my exploration.

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