[ExI] Morality

[John Clark]

On Jan 7, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Sondre Bjellås wrote:

> People dies, that's a fact of life.

So if you can't save everybody then don't save anybody? 

> Morality will improve our probability for survival and help us work well together in a society. 

Certainly not in this case! If I do what you recommend, if I do what you say is the moral action it will cause more death and misery than if I do the immoral thing. So I am immoral and proud of it. 

> you can't morally justify the killing of a fat guy to save five other people

My gut very strongly tells me that too, but my brain tells me that it is justified to kill one guy to save 5 other people, and if that's not moral then to hell with morality. In a real situation I don't know if I would have the strength to resist my gut instinct, but I do know that if I was on a jury judging somebody who had I would vote not guilty.

 John K Clark


 
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