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If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
If we had to torture and murder millions of innocent children to stop global warming would that be okay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] [S] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's the same riddle. You get that, right?

And so we find ourselves without an easy answer. And so we are forced to inspect the riddle more closely. To uncover hidden assumptions and such. We might even do that in conversation, on a forum like lemmy.

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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)
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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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    King totally pussied out on The Institute ending. (self.books)
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    There were 2 forks in the road at the end there.

    Fork 1) The people running the institute were being totally evil. But it was to save the world. Oh what a moral conundrum!

    King's choice : oh wait no, they were actually wrong about that. They were just being dumb. As explained by the genius. So all the bad stuff they did was for nothing good and the institute was just evil.

    Fork 2) The psychic kids mindmelded into a magic hivemind deity. Wow. This is certainly something amazing and new in the world .

    King's choice. : oh wait no, that whole thing immediately faded away after the climax.

    Why? Maybe he was hoping for a tv series, which requires no big changes and moral simplicity

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