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It is very apparent that Facebook is wanting to avoid appearing to be an "editor" of content in almost any shape or form in an effort to reduce their chances of being regulated by …

Do you not see the irony of then taking the position that my tactics are “cheap”? Having read the same article, my takeaway from their characterization of thought experiments was t…

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I was trying to be silly in pointing out the real reason why the trolley car experiment is supposed to have some challenge to it.

I've rarely heard someone make the counter-point that a fetus is technically half "you", which really does fundamentally change the violinist example. The violinist experiment does…

If you train a chicken to pull a trolley lever, does it weigh on the conscious of the chicken whether they killed 1 chicken vs 5 chickens? I'm not a chicken so I don't really know.…

You're totally striking on exactly how I would frame thought experiments. They're a tool that helps further a conversation and discussion, to challenge what might be a preconceived…

There just seems to be a misunderstanding on the intention of a though experiment here. There is a subtle implication that because the thought experiment is "contrived" that its le…