Editing The-ethical-fourier-transform (section)

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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.