• Okokimup@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is Contractualism. If anyone wants to learn more about this moral philosophy, you can read Scanlon’s What We Owe to Each Other, or for a better time, watch The Good Place.

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      More generally, this is the philosophy of deontology, or the study of duty/obligations if anyone is interested in seeing the whole eco system

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      The Good Place taught me that the solution to this problem is to let the cart run loose and kill the guy pulling the lever.