If you try to do moral philosophy, you inevitably end up thinking a lot about people getting run over by trolleys and such. Also if you want to design good chairs, you need to understand people’s butts really well. Though of course you’re allowed to say it’s a creepy job but still enjoy the results of that job :-)
If you try to do moral philosophy, you inevitably end up thinking a lot about people getting run over by trolleys and such. Also if you want to design good chairs, you need to understand people’s butts really well. Though of course you’re allowed to say it’s a creepy job but still enjoy the results of that job :-)
I haven’t read TOO much mainstream philosophy, but in what I have, I don’t recall even a single instance of torture being used to illustrate a point.
Maybe that’s what’s holding them back from being truly rational?