> What happens when you are forced to choose between two people...one of
i deny that there is a need of any deity to be empathetic. my
the best thing to do is to try to avoid such situations that will
>which will 'feel wronged' when making an unavoidable decision? Doesn't
>this demonstrate faulty 'moral logic' -- naturally your response will be
>something along the lines of "i would decide which would be less
>wronged"....this of course denoting a sort of all-seeing
>wisdom...which then infers a kind of deity state, which gets back to
>zloduska's point that your 'god' is but an imaginary friend you've
>customized based on your psychological needs and wants + your cultural
>identity and its inherent value systems. How pretentious and blinded
>that sounds..mixed with denial of course.
its called a "moral dillemma."
a hypothetical:
a draw bridge operator brings his child to work one day and his child
wanders around. a train is coming and the bridge is up, but the worker
sees on the monitor that his child is playing in the gears... if he lowers
the bridge he will crush his son; if he doesnt lower the bridge a train
full of people will die. what does this man do?
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