Please don’t throw around Gödel’s Theorem before you’ve really understood it— that’s one thing that makes people look like cranks!
“When does that ever happen and how does answering that question help me be more ethical?”
Very rarely; but pondering such hypotheticals has helped me to see what some of my actual moral intuitions are, once they are stripped of rationalizations (and chances to dodge the question). From that point on, I can reflect on them more effectively.
Sorry to sound crankish. Rather than “simple and inconsistent” I might have said that there were contrived and thus unanswerable questions. Regardless it distracted and I shouldn’t have digressed at all.
Anyway thank you for the good answer concerning hypotheticals.
Please don’t throw around Gödel’s Theorem before you’ve really understood it— that’s one thing that makes people look like cranks!
Very rarely; but pondering such hypotheticals has helped me to see what some of my actual moral intuitions are, once they are stripped of rationalizations (and chances to dodge the question). From that point on, I can reflect on them more effectively.
Sorry to sound crankish. Rather than “simple and inconsistent” I might have said that there were contrived and thus unanswerable questions. Regardless it distracted and I shouldn’t have digressed at all.
Anyway thank you for the good answer concerning hypotheticals.