I don’t see how exactly a tunnel would have such a critical piece that failure to land it at critical time would require the project to start anew. Such circumstances are actively avoided in engineering.
It is really interesting that people who try to make up such ‘kill to save a life’ scenario invariably end up having some major error with regards to how something works, which they try to disguise as a trivial low level detail which they urge us to ignore. Normally, if you aren’t trying to trick someone into some fallacy, it is quite easy to come up with a thought experiment which does not have tunnels that are built cardhouse style and have to be abandoned and started afresh due to failure to lower 1 piece in time.
There’s the very simple scenario for you guys to ponder: you have $100 000 , you can donate $10 000 to charity without noticeable dip in your quality of life, and that could easily save someone’s life for significant timespan. Very realistic, happens all the time, likely is happening right now to you personally.
You don’t donate.
Nonetheless you spend inordinate time conjecturing scenarios where it’d be moral to kill someone, instead of idk working at some job for same time, making $ and donating it to charity.
Ponder this for a while, do some introspection with regards to own actions. Are you moral being that can be trusted with choosing a path of action that’s the best for common good? Hell no, and neither am I. Are you even trying to do moral stuff correctly? No evidence of this happening, either. If you ask me to explain that kill-1-to-save-N scenario inventing behaviour, I’d say, probably some routine deep inside is simply interested in coming up with advance rationalization for homicide for money, or the like, to broaden the one’s, hmm, let’s say, opportunities.
For this reason, rather than coming up with realistic scenarios, people come up with faulty models where killing is justified, because deeply inside they are working for the purpose of justifying a killing using a faulty model.
I don’t see how exactly a tunnel would have such a critical piece that failure to land it at critical time would require the project to start anew. Such circumstances are actively avoided in engineering.
It is really interesting that people who try to make up such ‘kill to save a life’ scenario invariably end up having some major error with regards to how something works, which they try to disguise as a trivial low level detail which they urge us to ignore. Normally, if you aren’t trying to trick someone into some fallacy, it is quite easy to come up with a thought experiment which does not have tunnels that are built cardhouse style and have to be abandoned and started afresh due to failure to lower 1 piece in time.
There’s the very simple scenario for you guys to ponder: you have $100 000 , you can donate $10 000 to charity without noticeable dip in your quality of life, and that could easily save someone’s life for significant timespan. Very realistic, happens all the time, likely is happening right now to you personally.
You don’t donate.
Nonetheless you spend inordinate time conjecturing scenarios where it’d be moral to kill someone, instead of idk working at some job for same time, making $ and donating it to charity.
Ponder this for a while, do some introspection with regards to own actions. Are you moral being that can be trusted with choosing a path of action that’s the best for common good? Hell no, and neither am I. Are you even trying to do moral stuff correctly? No evidence of this happening, either. If you ask me to explain that kill-1-to-save-N scenario inventing behaviour, I’d say, probably some routine deep inside is simply interested in coming up with advance rationalization for homicide for money, or the like, to broaden the one’s, hmm, let’s say, opportunities. For this reason, rather than coming up with realistic scenarios, people come up with faulty models where killing is justified, because deeply inside they are working for the purpose of justifying a killing using a faulty model.