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It is incredibly trivial to stick a knife into human flesh. Triviality is not a dimension of ethics as far as I have come to understand it.
by hermannj314 10mo ago
It is incredibly trivial to stick a knife into human flesh.
Triviality is not a dimension of ethics as far as I have come to understand it.
- drnick1 10mo agoMy point is that since it is so incredibly easy to cheat (despite countermeasures that are essentially theater), returning to in person exams is probably a good thing.
- pessimizer 10mo agoThe point you're making has nothing to do with anything the person you're responding to said, or with the OP. It's just a gratuitous description of sadism as a virtue-signalling imitation of seriousness. You should find somebody who said cheating is fun and good to do, and explain your violent fantasies to them.
- falcor84 10mo agoIt's a dimension of neglect. If I run a service advertising itself as preventing people from harming themselves or each other (e.g. a mental health institution), then it would be criminally negligent of me to not limit people's access to sharp knives.
- hermannj314 10mo agoThat is an excellent point. My recent coursework at Penn State, there were guardrails around cheating using Honor Lock, I am guessing a motivated student could find ways around it, but the system was better than trusting students to do the right thing.
- beardyw 9mo agoGood point