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I think that's a strange thought experiment, since it's basically requesting that you think emotionally and as irrationally as possible to draw conclusions.
by arcticfox 9y ago
I think that's a strange thought experiment, since it's basically requesting that you think emotionally and as irrationally as possible to draw conclusions.
- ssully 9y agoIt's requesting that you remember that a human life was just lost, and to not reduce this woman's life to a rounding error. The only strange thing in this thread is the emotional detachment many are showing and one could probably argue that's the exact kind of thinking that will lead to more cases like this.
- musage 9y agoHow is that irrational? The personal experience isn't some uncomfortable mote in the eye of the objective perception of reality, to the contrary the delusion that such objective perception is even possible, that you can have a detached view on what you are inside of, is the mote in the eye of the closest you can get to the you you actually are. It could be argued that it's Plato who is stuck in the cave. Apart from that, you can imagine a loved one being killed or I can imagine you as someone who would just shrug if I or someone I love was killed, but there isn't really a whole lot in between those poles.