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193. Chris Edwards on Educational Reform and Thought Experiments

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Is It Ethical to Kill Someone in a Hospital Waiting Room?

A lot of philosophers look at ethics and just hands off be caue. They say it's too adjusted to local custom et cetera. But i think you're actually on pretty firm legal terratr of ethical territory, logical territory. A lot of times the issuewith ethics becomes ath there's no firm rule. Were, ah, you really can't do a kind of two plus two equals four, kind of study of ethics. If if were not careful with them, if the two situations are not directly the same in some ways, then they sort of fall apart trying to transfer from situation to situation.

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