Moral dilemma. Who's fault is it?
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Moral dilemma. Who's fault is it?
He is the sole provider for his family. Farm ain't doing so good, he goes from one small job to the other but still has little or nothing to give to the family sometimes.
Then you buy a taxi for the man to take care of his family and then he died in an accident 2 days after, with the car.
Did you kill him?
Is it your fault?
How would you feel?
Would you be responsible for further suffering of his family?
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Re: Moral dilemma. Who's fault is it?
Pages if that did happen the insurance should be enough to help the family get back on their feet. Of course if I cared about someone enough to buy them a car I'd feel awful, even though it's obviously not my fault, and I'd likely try to do more to help the family.
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Ikr... He/she has to be a monster for typing something that unthoughtfully stupid
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Pages wrote: ↑October 15th, 2018, 5:30 pm A poor farmer who was laid off from his driving job more than 10 years ago, is struggling to survive with his family in a small incomplete building.
He is the sole provider for his family. Farm ain't doing so good, he goes from one small job to the other but still has little or nothing to give to the family sometimes.
Then you buy a taxi for the man to take care of his family and then he died in an accident 2 days after, with the car.
Did you kill him?
Is it your fault?
How would you feel?
Would you be responsible for further suffering of his family?
Dah no, obviously.
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Whether or not to empower them
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Re: Moral dilemma. Who's fault is it?
Anyone who knows what this word truly means, knows the answer to the OP's first, second and fourth questions.Pages wrote: ↑October 15th, 2018, 5:30 pm A poor farmer who was laid off from his driving job more than 10 years ago, is struggling to survive with his family in a small incomplete building.
He is the sole provider for his family. Farm ain't doing so good, he goes from one small job to the other but still has little or nothing to give to the family sometimes.
Then you buy a taxi for the man to take care of his family and then he died in an accident 2 days after, with the car.
Did you kill him?
Is it your fault?
How would you feel?
Would you be responsible for further suffering of his family?
As to the third: badly, though not overwhelmingly so.
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Re: Moral dilemma. Who's fault is it?
It’s a silly question. Basically you are asking if someone would help people they care about. Obviously yes.
Also, the idea that an accident in which we take no part in is iur fault is also quite silly.
I suggest you put a little more thought into how you word your hypothetical next time. What would be more interesting would be to ask what benefits you gain from helping random strangers, and to what extent we help others in order to help ourselves - the age old question of the existence of an “unrewarded” kindness.
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Re: Moral dilemma. Who's fault is it?
That is a good point. The saying about the road to evil being pathed with good intentions highlights this.
People can certainly be given too much “help.” How we judge this comes with personal experience and careful observation. I still wouldn’t see any blame on teh part of buying someone a taxi (although I would expect the person to reimburse me in some way because I don’t believe in complete charity - unless it’s a small thing or mrely giviing someone time and attention.) If he then died I certainly wouldn’t expect his family to pay me back in any way, nor would I feel guilty unless I knew he couldn’t drive or that the taxi was a death trap.
Just because we cannot predict future ourcomes it doesn’t mean we should do nothing. We will make mistakes so better to recognise them and then build wisdom. We’re limited beings.
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I don't think the path to hell is paved with reasonable and sincere and hard working good intentions.
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