Donaldson's Equim
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Donaldson's Equim
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Re: Donaldson's Equim
It depends on whether the reason for the citizen's behaviour was because they truly felt equally about say their children and random kids or if they had the magical power to separate the fact they had strong feelings for their children from both the act of saving one child AND after the event transpired not regretting their decision.WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑December 5th, 2021, 3:26 am This thought experiment is similar to one of my previous posts: Equim is a land in which everyone is completed impartial. In Equim, everyone treats each other with equality. For example, if a parent had the choice of saving their child or another child from drowning, they would make an impartial decision, possibly by flipping a coin or simply choosing the child that is closest. Let us say that the world of Equim is happier or at least less complicated than our society, both on a societal level and an individual level. If you could find a means to make the people of Equim more like everyone else, would or should you? Vice versa, would or should make the people of the world more like the people of Equim? Below is a link surrounding the topic of moral relativism.
https://iep.utm.edu/moral-re/
If it is the former case, the citizens likely have average happiness... all the time. No highs, no lows, average all the time. Personally, I prefer our actual situation of crushing lows and uplifting highs, but that is just my preference, others may disagree.
If it is the latter situation, that is such a nonhuman situation that there is no experience to draw upon as a comparison to extrapolate a prediction.
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