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minus-squaredadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down4·12 hours agoAlso not pulling the lever makes you morally responsible if you “stand by and do nothing”
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·5 hours agoUnless the lever is in another country and you’re just paying the guy pulling the lever, then “there’s nothing I can do”.
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·12 hours agoThat’s another way of looking at it
minus-squarego $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 hours agoThat’s literally the point
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·10 hours agoDecisions have consequences, doing nothing is a decision.
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·edit-23 hours ago“doing nothing is a decision” is a legitimate position you can argue for, but it is not some kind of settled moral fact that you can just assert without any justification.
Also not pulling the lever makes you morally responsible if you “stand by and do nothing”
Unless the lever is in another country and you’re just paying the guy pulling the lever, then “there’s nothing I can do”.
That’s another way of looking at it
That’s literally the point
Decisions have consequences, doing nothing is a decision.
“doing nothing is a decision” is a legitimate position you can argue for, but it is not some kind of settled moral fact that you can just assert without any justification.