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> I hope I would walk away, even at the price of slow starvation. Because to you, Omelas is not net better. Which is perfectly understandable. But what basis d
by sooheon 6y ago
> I hope I would walk away, even at the price of slow starvation.
Because to you, Omelas is not net better. Which is perfectly understandable. But what basis do you have for rejecting Omelas, other than that you believe it to be worse?
- NateEag 6y agoMy belief that there is an external standard of right and wrong that has little to do with utility, and that I know what that standard says about torturing people for your own gain. It's not about utility, it's that it's wrong to hate and harm a few people. The "good" of the many does not have one iota of influence over the wrongness of that action. To quote the book that defines so much of my moral code, "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but loses his soul?" Side note: describing my worldview with language from yours does not mean yours subsumes mine.