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To: D-fendr

You decide what’s important in hypothetical never going to happen in reality sitting around over beers Trolley Problems. In reality when you’re traveling 58 feet per second and that dog ran out in the road 20 feet in front of you you don’t decide a damn thing. You react by instinct.


53 posted on 08/18/2017 7:59:56 AM PDT by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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To: discostu

>>You react by instinct

We can make moral decisions by instinct. It could be said that these are of highest value in human beings.


55 posted on 08/18/2017 8:20:12 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: discostu

Getting quite philosophical here, but this is a philosophical disccusion. I think different humans would have different “instinctual” reactions. And I believe we often judge a persons morality by those instincts.

I think you would agree with this. You may disagree that humans, unlike animals, can shape or change their instincts (as we can our habits.)


56 posted on 08/18/2017 8:24:35 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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