Cthulhu-chan wrote:Sophistry will get you nowhere. The simple fact of knowing that not pushing the button will result in a hundred people dieing causes the concious act of doing nothing to be an action. In fact, by the scenario's very wording, it would not be possible to adopt a stance of inaction.
False. Not doing anything is inaction. You can't just handwave inaction as action because inaction would be evil, "therefore not doing anything is an action".
Not pressing the button is clearly inaction. Evil inaction.
Slartibartfast wrote:
False. Not doing anything is inaction. You can't just handwave inaction as action because inaction would be evil, "therefore not doing anything is an action".
Not pressing the button is clearly inaction. Evil inaction.
Fuck, even Ayn Rand (who appears to be where Kojikun got most of his morals) believed in the evils of inaction.
