Philosophy

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I guess humanism shouldn't be limited to the left crowd, but anyway it might find more interest here so..

I am glad Michael Sandel exists and i shall get my hands on his other books.

https://youtu.be/L1U2haTj-Ws?si=SEYqPDXpTYR7f43t

“funny but also hmm” story

Prof Sandel came to my college, Virginia Military Institute, to give a school-wide symposium on moral dilemmas and had us cadets respond about trolley problem type stuff

Except the utilitarianism runs so deep that cadets had no hesitation at all the entire talk 

“yea of course I kill the one guy instead of 5” responses every time

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I think relative to his usual cohort of nuanced Harvard undergrads he was a bit taken aback

Foley of youth IMO. You can't really explain the significance of certain things to people, it has to be experienced

By the end the poor professor was clearly a bit depressed that he had inspired absolutely zero moments of pause or moral reflection in the VMI corps of cadets

yeh i assume it is very hard to undo that.

but on the funny note, have you ever played this one:

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yeh i assume it is very hard to undo that.

but on the funny note, have you ever played this one: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

No one cares about your story until you Win ,
So Win !

How can I do this with my mind, or is it even possible? I mean, can I make firm decisions in my head so that if I’m in a situation, I just act on them?

Honestly, this is one of my biggest weaknesses. If there’s a solution, I’d be really happy and grateful to use it.

It means that we had already been through a fair amount of “hard decisions” + practice when it comes to pain and deciding about hurting people so it wasn’t as much of a challenge

We’d already made the mental decision before the talk.

Does that mean they might not make such a decision in real life?

Wow that’s a unique perspective. Thanks for the share. A colleague graduated from VMI. He shared some good stories indeed.