strictly utilitywise no. but eventually you do hit a hard cap on how many people exist. and trying to “help” any more of that while hurting more is strictly lower util than a worse option
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bad question
the terms are far too broad to make na actual informed decision on whether it is moral
“help” could be like give them $10 and hurt could be like kill their family or smthn
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What Is She Cooking
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i dont think it makes a difference. i thought the question would ask me whether or not the whole thing is moral in the first place but its not asking me that at all
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yeah
the question is a blob of text i agree
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it doesn’t matter in the sense that the answer is the same either way, but the more people are involved the worse it is to not help the people
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No matter how much you don’t care or convince yourself you don’t carw about pain, eventually your body will physically give out
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this is somehow both incredibly singeresque and not singeresque at all
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the more people are involved the more likely one of them is to be disabled
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That’s literally irrelevant. It’s just asking if the scale changes things
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Let’s uh, make the questiob better.
Assume that helping people means disabled people can walk, while the hurt people can no longer walk.
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Like it’s very possible that the 10k could be more valuable to me than the 100k but I don’t know. I will never make a decision based on population alone. Not even a billion to one
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i dont see how its irrelevant? if the hurt is like “people are seveerly distraught by what happens” i would probably say no, if the hurt is like “they are inconvienced or things arent optimal but they’ll be fine” i’d probably say yes
literally haven’t read a word in this conversation since the trolley was mentioned
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this makes it harder
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“Is it equally as bad to give 10 people $10 and kill 1 person’s family as it is to give 100,000 people $10 and kill 10,000 people’s family” and you can sub in whatever extrema you want
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