They haven’t internalized the idea that the world is inconvenient enough to call for a systematic way of dealing with problems that lack ideal solutions.
I suspect that they have internalized the idea that the world allows for ideal solutions, or at least non-negative solutions, because so much current fiction is based on happy endings.
I wonder if people from cultures which include tragic fiction would tend to answer the trolley problem differently.
I wonder if people from cultures which include tragic fiction would tend to answer the trolley problem differently.
There hasn’t been an extensive global survey that I’m aware of but reasonably diverse samples have turned up apx. zero divergence between demographic groups
I suspect that they have internalized the idea that the world allows for ideal solutions, or at least non-negative solutions, because so much current fiction is based on happy endings.
I wonder if people from cultures which include tragic fiction would tend to answer the trolley problem differently.
There hasn’t been an extensive global survey that I’m aware of but reasonably diverse samples have turned up apx. zero divergence between demographic groups
Btw folks, Phillipa Foot died last month. RIP.