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Is pulling the lever in a Trolley Problem murder? Is the navy sniper who killed the pirate captain who was holding hostages at gun point a murderer? Seams like
by wedn3sday 5y ago
Is pulling the lever in a Trolley Problem murder? Is the navy sniper who killed the pirate captain who was holding hostages at gun point a murderer? Seams like you're taking a moral absoluist stance in a very morally grey world, and remember "only sith deal in absolutes."
- user-the-name 5y agoStar Wars is not a very good basis for a moral argument.
- Veen 5y agoNor is naiveté. There are bad people in the world. That's a brute fact you have to account for in your moral reckoning. If you take the purist "no violence" stance, you're abandoning victims to their fate so you can remain pure. That doesn't seem moral to me.