Right, I thought the point was showing people are viscerally uncomfortable with the result of this line of reasoning and make them decide whether they reject (a) the reasoning (b) the discomfort or (c) the membership of this example in the torture vs specks class
Trolling usually means disrupting the flow of discussion by deliberate offensive behaviour towards other participants. It usually doesn’t denote proposing a thought experiment with a possible solution that is likely to be rejected for its offensiveness. But this could perhaps be called “trolleying”.
But wouldn’t that defeat the purpose, or am I missing something? I understood the offensiveness of the specific example to be the point.
Right, I thought the point was showing people are viscerally uncomfortable with the result of this line of reasoning and make them decide whether they reject (a) the reasoning (b) the discomfort or (c) the membership of this example in the torture vs specks class
That’s called “trolling”, yes?
Trolling usually means disrupting the flow of discussion by deliberate offensive behaviour towards other participants. It usually doesn’t denote proposing a thought experiment with a possible solution that is likely to be rejected for its offensiveness. But this could perhaps be called “trolleying”.
One of the best ever puns I recall on this forum!