you’re French, right? Imagine what would have happened if you let the Germans conquer your country in World War II.
not all those German soldiers were Nazis, not all of them were bad people. Many of them were just ordinary folks roped into a war by a corrupt and evil government.
but your ancestors still needed to kill those men for you to have the freedoms you currently have.
In this case the choice is completely ethical one person is about to kill the others
So of course I would act.
He always brings up one piece in political discussions
The manga made by the guy who never read a single philosophical book all his life
You would benefit from a lesson or two from the guy mate lol
Just note, for clarification that i'm not talking about a case where the one person is a "horrible person" anymore. Just a simple rando (or even someone you care about perhaps) AGAINST multiple billion people
Well, if we reduce this issue. You will see that some of the character in OP are making a real choice and it's not the one of the group. As in reality, in the case of OP, the group is INCLUDED in the choice and action of the person.
I never told you that the billion of people were not included in your action. In reality, the best choice is to consider the agency of the person in the problem, on both sides of the balance.
This is what Oda does in One Piece. The characters break the troley problem by including character into the choice and targeting the real problem : the one who pushed the choices on the character.
And this is what I'm telling you to do here.
Stop looking at the balance
Stop weighting the lives of people as if one person is worth more than two
Consider the agency of all the person as their agency might make the difference and target the real problem:
- Not individual behaviors
- Not bad apples
- Not extremely sociopathic people
(even tho these three must be taken into account)
But the system that pushes you to consider some people as more human than others. When in reality,
we are all humans and we are all potentially capable of doing horrible things in horrible circumstances.
It doesn't mean forgiving people. It means knowing what to do to create a society where those behavior won't appear.
It almost feels like logiko just bases his political alignments on random fictional works he likes at this point
I'm using OP because it's a OP forum and I need to find a way to vulgarize complexe stuff to people who can't even understand the concept of systemism and domination systems. I know people forget it sometimes, but it's important
He seems to have a very primitive view of the world in general and acts like nothing bad should ever happen no matter what
It's weird.
We won't build paradise on fatalism and sarcasm.