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You are handed an envelope. Within it is information about a not-especially-close friend. They would strongly prefer you not to know this information and would be quite upset if they learned you had opened it, though they won't know unless you tell them. The information is not in any way related to you or people you know personally other than this friend, and it does not contain information about them doing anything illegal. If it reveals information about them acting immorally, it is something noticeably not as bad as the worst thing you have ever done. The information will not benefit you personally in any way (it's not their bank account password, etc).
Is it unethical to open the envelope? Would you open it?
It is unethical | I would open it
It is not unethical | I would open it
It is unethical | I would not open it
It is not unethical | I would not open it
#insufficient information to fully assess#where does this information come from? how do I know their feelings on it?#however barring extenuating circumstances I would not open it
i'm always a bit bemused by this type of response to hypotheticals - obviously, in real life, someone has to be giving you this information and telling you things about it, and this adds additional variables about what this person's motives are and how trustworthy they are. similarly with how they would feel about it - maybe you're reasoning (with some uncertainty) using theory of mind about how they'd feel, or maybe the person who sent it to you told you that and you have to try and suss out what their relationship is to the person being written about, and so on and so forth.
the purpose of the hypothetical is to remove these considerations, to strip away the complexity and uncertainty of real life in an attempt to isolate the moral considerations at play. this is the same principle present in (eg) the trolley problem, which is an obviously contrived and unrealistic scenario to find oneself in that nonetheless may have some relevance to your response to real-life scenarios.
anyway. the answer to both questions is "a wizard did it"
It's the same principle as the trolley problem, but I don't think it's as clean of a fit. In the trolley problem, you see the trolley coming, you see the people on the tracks, you see the lever connected to the junction, you see that you probably don't have time to do anything else and even if you wanted to, pulling the lever isn't likely to have much impact on your ability to try anything else. The abstraction is contrived, but it addresses the relevant considerations
Compare to the "Fat Man" variation. Rather than pulling a lever to switch tracks, the trolley has one track, and the only way to stop it is to push someone else into its path. It's theoretically the same sacrifice of one person to save five, but while most people are in favor of the sacrifice in the first case, most are against it in the second. It's a scenario that raises a lot of additional considerations - how confident are you that pushing someone will successfully stop the trolley? How confident are you that throwing yourself - or something else - onto the tracks would not be sufficient? Are you sure you're physically capable of pulling it off - and what happens if you fail? How will others react if you succeed?
The problem typically stipulates that you know that none of those things will be an issue, but realistically, people don't "just know" things. If you actually found yourself in such a situation, you'd have to question how you know those things and how reliable your information is. The original trolley problem avoids these considerations by creating a scenario simple enough that any doubts about one option get balanced out by equivalent doubts about the other.
So, with this in mind, my assessments are:
Trolley problem (original): Ethical, would do it (and would not trust anyone who wouldn't)
Trolley problem ("Fat Man"): Unethical unless you're an expert on all the relevant physics and assess the stipulations with full confidence, would not do it
Envelope problem: Unethical in most circumstances (depends on how the information was collected and your expected future interactions with the friend), would not do it
I don't trust that wizard so I'm settling on unethical.
basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.
[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.
Sunday thought: It's Still Capital vs. Labor, Stupid https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-its-still-capital
Louis Wain
'Feline Beauty'
(Smugly after failing at a task) and they said it could be done.
Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.
I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.
Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.
And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!
Is that not just the coolest shit ever????
(Quietly, with love) We will remember your bread, we will remember your dog, we will remember your shoes
(Quietly, with anger) We will remember your copper
If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.
What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.
My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.
Actually he wrote all the complaints himself with various sock puppet accounts to drum up sympathy subscribers to his Claytreon
i love abortion and i love divorce
i pop some pills and i ride my horse
i log onto tumblr and i start discourse
eyyyy macarena
actual conversations that happen in dragon age
“I wasn’t the first one he made, I was only the first one he kept.”
[Well I had intended to draw more stupid stuff anyway. I’m pretty sure it was a glitch, it certainly looked like one, but Grunt’s head just snapped up when Miranda said that during her loyalty mission. It’s just super relevant so, glitch or not, it’s one of those moments that’s really stuck with me.]
