The-ethical-fourier-transform

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the-ethical-fourier-transform

Title text: There's a lot of networking to be done on the Dark Side.

Votey

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I call it the ethical

Suppose you've got an ethical conundrum. Instead of solving it, convert it to the realm of economics. Having solved it there declare it to be a solved ethical problem.

Fourier transform."

Example: Suppose you're piloting a trolley. It's headed toward five people. You can change course to kill only one.

I don't know life is special it's like asking whether one infinity is as big as five infinities.

What do you do?

Exactly unsolvable but we can calculate the damage to the trolley, which is derived from the mass of the special human lives.

Thus, it is best to kill only one

Person.

This is a terrible method! It doesn't even solve basic virtue problems, like whether you can steal bread to

Let me check today's grain market prices and

Feed your family

It'll be ethical

It should always be ethical to steal to eat!

To steal bread

To feed your family until

It is! For potatoes. Corn, and some varieties of

Mid -november.

Rice.

This is dumb. Moral truth doesn't hinge on commodity

Oh? Let me ask you this: Is it ethical to steal truffle mushrooms and champagne to

Pricing.

Feed your family?

I don't well. Honestly, that somehow does feel like a different matter than the bread.

This is

Weirding

Me out.

Come to the dark side.

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Whether you can KiLL to cat depends on the victim's citizenship.

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