My new post: I talk about the famous Trolley Problem in ethics & why it bugs me so much ... and I end up going on for so long that I explain why I'm a progressive at all. Bonus: I read the post aloud! If that's your kind of thing. volts.wtf/p/why-i-am-a-p…
Since not everyone's going to read/listen to this, here's a summary: the best way to improve the human condition is to recruit as much help as possible & the best way to do that is to lift as many people as possible out of poverty/precarity/hunger/stress.
In real life, moral dilemmas are not solved by solitary cogitation, but by *practice*, by iteration & experimentation, and the more minds/hands you have devoting themselves to higher order, longer term problems, the better your odds of solving them.
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