16-BITTER posted...
Socrates' hypotheticals were based in reality, not fantasy.
We don't even know if Socrates did any of the things Plato said he did. The whole thing is hypothetical to it;s core.
Fusing two people together is not science fiction, it is fantasy.
It's literally science fiction but this feels irrelevant.
Debating about a fictional scenario that could happen makes sense, debating about a fictional scenario that could never happen does not.
Why not?
For one as I mentioned in my post and you ignored aggressively. What "could never happen" will always change. I used the example of organ transplant/harvesting. That would have been science fiction to Socrates or Napoleon or Abe Lincoln.
For two, most of our morals, ethics and decision making comes from talking about hypothetical scenarios and discussing, analayzing and debating them.
Acting like a moral dilemma is bizarre to talk about because it's fictional is obscenely close-minded. I'd wager most ethicals and moral dilemmas ever discussed by a landslide are hypothetical.
The resulting morals and ethics we take on in our lives from the discourse is the same regardless. And those morals and ethics will be passed on and come up in comparable real world scenarios that will occur.
If you decide murder of Tuvix is ethical because "The greater good, needs of the many outweighs the few." those ethics, logic and morality are still your ethics, logic and morality. You still came to those conclusions for the same reasons and same justifications.
"I'll consider the moral implications of a human in a car crash but not an alien space station crash since that can't happen!" to me is just being utterly close minded and peculiar
I get that ignoring this is part of your schtick, but you will not rope me into it.
Randomly insulting me is just being silly and adds nothing to the conversation.
The very society you live in and benefit from came off the backs of logic, reason, ethics and morality that for better and worse was built off discussion of hypotheticals over the course of generations.