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Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:45 am
by Arising_uk
rantal wrote:... to query the details is to miss the point.
To query the details is a large part of Philosophy.
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:04 pm
by rantal
Arising_uk wrote:rantal wrote:... to query the details is to miss the point.
To query the details is a large part of Philosophy.
Yes generally but not in thought experiments
all the best, rantal
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:47 pm
by Arising_uk
rantal wrote:Yes generally but not in thought experiments. ...
!? Much of Ethics is such things and the parameters are always questioned as they strongly affect the experiment and its conclusions.
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:22 pm
by rantal
Arising_uk wrote:rantal wrote:Yes generally but not in thought experiments. ...
!? Much of Ethics is such things and the parameters are always questioned as they strongly affect the experiment and its conclusions.
No, usually in ethics thought experiment conditions are taken as read. For instance Thompson and the Indians, one could ask many similar questions to avoid the dilema but to pursue such would be to miss the point of the experiment
all the best, rantal
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:49 pm
by Arising_uk
rantal wrote:No, usually in ethics thought experiment conditions are taken as read. For instance Thompson and the Indians, one could ask many similar questions to avoid the dilema but to pursue such would be to miss the point of the experiment
all the best, rantal
Fair enough. So the conclusion is that an ethical vegetarian should eat a dead baby rather than kill an animal.
Personally, this is why I found Ethics and Morals pointless as a philosophical study. My take is that living is the thought experiment in Ethics as all are given their Ethics and then have to choose which ones hold or not and its not until actually faced with the reality that the choice will be a moral one.
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:17 am
by Arising_uk
Wouldn't a simpler thought experiment be, "Would you kill and eat an animal if the choice was that or starve to death?"?
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:58 am
by rantal
That would be a diferent thought experiment and would test a different mater
all the best, rantal
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:06 am
by Arising_uk
What matter were you trying to test?
Although it looks like theres no vegetarians to answer here.