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  • Stupid thought exercise

    What about different media

    1. Stone. Can a just send a Muslim I don’t like huge cement blocks with the word allah edged into them and they will have to keep them as there is no save way to discard them

    2. Digital. The servers of sh.itjust.works now contain the word allah. Does the word come into contact with the pictures of dog shit that are also saved on the server. Is it OK to delete the servers or will they need to be burned down as well












  • Depends on the philosophy you believe in.

    Deonthology states that some actions are allways morally wrong if they hurt the rights of a person

    Ulitarism states that actions are morally right if they have a combined net positive on all the affected people.

    In the first, specific needs of one can’t be broken no matter how many would profit.

    (Thonk rorschach vs ozymandius in watchman “killing millions to save billions”)

    Realistically nobody completely has one of these systems but rather it is about finding where you lie between them.

    If you say you would not even tell a single lie if that would guarantee world peace:
    that would be a 100% deonthology

    If you say you would torture innocents, if enough other people’s lives would improve:
    that would be 100% Ulitarism

    The basis of the trolly problem is exactly this: what horrific act would and wouldn’t you do as long as there is a positive outcome