Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read
I think you are wrong and inconsistent in dismissing this, Andrew. You have asserted the desirability of the human influence in approaching a thought experiment (which by-the-way can have right answers, they are not confined to philosophy). The inovative, imaginative approach to problem-solving is what makes humans supreme. We do not simply accept what might seem inevitable; had we done so historically we would never have had a train or indeed a fat person to make the subject of our thought experiments.
Having said that I think this is a very apposite discussion to be having as the concept of killing others, remotely with no threat to ourselves for the benefit of those people and things that we do value is becoming normalised.
