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If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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EDIT Ok so it's just the trolly problem.

EDIT2 : AHA War Games 1983. "The only winning move is not to play." (We might call this the final product of a lot of smart philosophical digestion, because it's a famous movie). There's always the perfectly valid option to ditch the riddle. (Because maybe the riddle is dumb, or maybe the riddle is no better than a thousand others, utilitywise )

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[โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Typically, an abstraction maintains the essence of the original. Asking "what if , but it costs " isn't an abstraction.

I'm not aware of a proposed solution to climate change that involves mass torture or murder.

The question feels more like one of those terrible parlor games where you have to pick a few cards and then argue some randomly generated point.

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