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Won't work. You have to choose the machine's moral decision outcome before you use it, which means that you're making the decision while still "immoral" (for th
by pierrefar 17y ago
Won't work. You have to choose the machine's moral decision outcome before you use it, which means that you're making the decision while still "immoral" (for the lack of a better word).
- xenophanes 17y agoThe question "What if there were a machine to make everyone moral?" implicitly assumed it would make people moral, whatever that is, as a premise, rather than moral according to someone's judgment. This reading may be debatable, but I think that's how he took it.
- hugh3 17y agoI suppose behaving morally is two problems, then: a) Deciding what is moral, and b) Doing it even if you don't want to. A machine which helped you do (b) would be useful even if it couldn't do (a).