This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors, Chidi
Of course. But I would do it for the love of the game, not a paycheck.
Well, if I do it, I’m now a Professor of Applied Moral Philosophy…
One of my favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33VUuu2fb1I
Welp, I just spent a few hours consuming her entire YouTube. Bravo.
Just one piece of constructive criticism: I think she missed a great opportunity to have a profound conversation with the omniscient portal that opened up in the laundromat.
Oh hell yeah, rigging is real fun
you are an economist. eliminating zoning laws and HOAs would make construction of houses cheaper, saving lots of people lots of money, but the construction companies would be less profitable. do you argue in favor of unnecessarily complex building codes sothat the company stays profitable at the expense of the population?
That depends. How much is the population offering me to advocate in favor of them, and how much are the construction companies offering?
what if it’s the population who wants you to use the zoning laws and HOAs to restrict the supply so the value of their investment in their home doubles every 10-15 years?
and the developers have nothing to do with it. because waht they do is just build luxury housing now becaues it has a higher margin than non-luxury units, and you can only build a handful of homes each year in this town thanks to the zoning laws.
I’ve never seen an economist argue is favor of non-safety related building codes. Ever.
I’m an absurdist and I have a shitty degree in economics if you want to check something off your bucket list
If you can hold the mandatory economist’s compulsion to be liberal for long enough to write a coherent argument for that intervention, I’m willing to count it and update my opinion.
define liberal. i know seven definitions
Somebody that defends personal freedom.
Okay, give me some time I am off for the night. Wait until I am high as fuck and trying to sleep or just had some good coffee and an empanada on… Friday?
Gotta add on another level.
Zoning laws and HOA’s give larger construction companies a significant competitive advantage over smaller companies. This limits competition and drives up the cost while also degrading the average quality of the construction as the larger companies seek to maximize profits.
Nah … I just tie people to rails for the fun of it … now turn around and put your hands behind your back
I hope you also have a thin handlebar mustache that you twirl while cackling or the experience would be ruined.
No I don’t … but you can also turn around and put your hands behind your back
Or shitty philosophy profs and their shitty students love oversimplified examples because they are easy to understand, than understanding the deeper social contexts and texts around which morality and moral disputes actaully constructed.
this type of ‘moral problem’ is actually specifically designed to be devoid of such context, because context is too difficult and fraught to deal with for the prof and the students, esp in a intro level coursework which in these idealized euristics types of questions that have little to no bearing on real world questions of how to treat others.
and all these type of question really is is just ‘which is the lesser evil’.
and every corporate/applied ethics course is full of nonsense like this. because it’s not about morality, it’s about abstract problem solving and argumentation… which is precisely the approach that makes corporate management often so fucking evil towards human beings in general.
stuff like this essentially is teaching people that ‘being good’ is basically the ability to elaborating justify doing evil, or , worse, creating plausible deniability of your corporate or personal agency.
which is also, sadly, why it’s so wildly popular.
Can I chose which ones exactly?
nah, you doctor footage of people on the rails and stimulate the scenario instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sl5KJ69qiA
Whoever is forcing this dilemma is doing something wrong. Sue them for a fat payday… or chose violence.
No. I would tie them to the tracks for fun.
I wouldn’t be a professor of moral philosophy if I did shit like this just at work.
You could pull the lever and watch the trolley crash trying to make it through that tight S-bend.
I’m at least whipping my dick out, I’ll tell you that
Oh, that’s a game changer, I love it
(Intended as a reply to another comment. Apprently I’m still learning Blorp)
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