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It is actually a pretty radical idea that isn't very widely accepted today. It is easy to agree with it if you are talking about some racial minority. Treatin
by s1artibartfast 2y ago
It is actually a pretty radical idea that isn't very widely accepted today.
It is easy to agree with it if you are talking about some racial minority.
Treating murderers or child rapists with the compassion you would want in their shoes is beyond most people.
It also has a number of very easy criticisms that can be set against it
- bee_rider 2y agoIf we don’t know going into this hypothetical what sort of person we’ll be, we can still play the odds and say we should lock up child rapists and murders for life. It is very unlikely we’ll be born as one, and letting them go free will allow them to harm multiple people…
- _0ffh 2y agoThat's a very relevant thing you bring up: The way we design our society changes not only the outomes for roles of certain fixed probabilities - it changes the probabilities as well. If you lock up the rapists and murderers, there's a lower chance your role will include being the victim of a rapist or murderer. You always have to consider all sides of every decision as well as higher order effects.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI was thinking more along the lines of compassion and rehabilitation. I think the numbers argument is a pretty different one than the original thought experiment.