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#214 - Cosmic Skeptic - How Do We Define What Is Good & Bad?
Modern Wisdom
The Third Party Perspective on Morality
If we are talking about you doing the thing, there is no third party perspective for you to take. There is only in the should, not the wood. If morality is objective, then we should say like it doesn't matter what you would like there. The principle being, yeah, okay, so I'll sacrifice one person's life to save five innocent people's life. And interestingly, there have been studies where people have undergone an MRI scan whilst being asked whether they'd push a fat man off of a bridge if he was walking on a trapdoor. But surely if the principle is the same, then you should do the same thing? Or at least try and find out how much
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