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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Agency might matter depending on societal context. 5 hot guys might be worse than 1 hot guy in a world with limited resources, for example.

Everyone knows that 5 of something is usually better than 1. The dilemma comes from finding a situation where that might not be true, and therein exploring some quirks of our own humanity.

It goes too far when people interpret these quirks as fundamental human traits, but there is genuine merit in testing oneself with fun hypotheticals

[โ€“] sukhmel 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

testing oneself with fun hypotheticals

fun

you've got a peculiar taste for fun, I must admit

editto be fair, I don't disagree, and discussing things like that or pondering them can be fun, but I still wouldn't expect such a choice of words ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Trolley problems can be directly mapped to those "would you rather" drinking games. e.g. Would you have sex with your dad to save your mum's life?

The question is meaningless in a normal context, the answer is meaningless in a normal context, but it's fun to explore your limits in strange circumstances, no?

[โ€“] sukhmel 3 points 1 week ago

That's true, there's even a party game that consists solely of controversial topics to talk about, not even this kind of weird ones

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