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The social contract (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is Contractualism. If anyone wants to learn more about this moral philosophy, you can read Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other, or for a better time, watch The Good Place.

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More generally, this is the philosophy of deontology, or the study of duty/obligations if anyone is interested in seeing the whole eco system

[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Good Place taught me that the solution to this problem is to let the cart run loose and kill the guy pulling the lever.