A demon is about to senselessly slaughter a random person in the world. If you press the button, you stop the demon, but unemployment in your country increases by 1%. Do you press the button?
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The wording on this one is confusing. “No” means him doing the thing. Also takes the agency/responsibility away from us, it’s the “demon’s” doing, not our choice, and yet, we’re the limiting step? I feel like it’s a throwback to Nietzche’s imp, but still.
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Wait, the demon is doing a good thing now?
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It's not clear whether the illegal abortions will save the lives of women or the demon preventing them from getting abortions will save lives
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A hospital administrator can save one child's life for $100k, or ten adult's lives for $10k. How do they choose? IMO, you can measure civilization by how infrequently these kinds of decisions have to be made.
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Many such decisions are made all the time, but we prefer to lie to ourselves about them.
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Suppose you are mis-gendering the demon.
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Whatever keeps more babies from being Lauren
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This is a very leading question. You’re not taking into account what life that child will live. I would like women to have the freedom of healthcare and not have to choose to abort illegally.
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