What is a political issue that you want to understand the opposite viewpoint more?

[Zkuq]

palou said:

Zkuq said:

The train dilemma forces it to be a conscious choice. Most of the time, inaction isn't a conscious choice. Instead, it's something that pretty much happens because of the way a person thinks. Choices happen all the time in life, but we don't really think about most of them. There are definitely cases where action and inaction are quite similar, but in the general case, I don't think that's the case.

Ah yes, sorry, I was thinking, more specifically, of conscious inaction - which I see simply as 1 action among many others. There are a lot of people that choose not to touch the lever in the standard train dilemma - that's something I have difficulty finding a logical explanation for.

 

However, as said (in the second example), these conscious decisions *not* to act at detriment of another person happen all the time, in society, and are generally accepted as lesser than what people would describe as an action to detriment of a person.

 

Of course, I distinguish between what we know and do not know. That's why I was talking about probability space.

This clears up the situation quite well, I'd say.