Cookie Thread Act 3: The Cookie Strikes Back

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#19191

its a drowning kid in a shallow pond tbf

#19192

I like how rachel doesn’t realize that all the cookie thread posters are me on different accounts. Dont believe me? watch me LIKE THIS POST on my other accounts

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#19193

You don’t realize that I joined this forum like 4 years ago, and know half the people posting here

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#19194

it’s true rachel knows me

#19195

Let me clarify i need both but i need my relationships from work more. Physical exhilaration is free i can go run 50+ miles whenever I want. I need my job for mental and emotional exhilaration

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#19196

The Drowning Child

Good, that is surely the right choice. It is hard to think that possession of a battered old bike could trump the life of a child in a moral calculus.

Multiple Rescues

Now let’s imagine that this is not the first time you’ve come across a child strugging in an expanse of water and seemingly at risk of drowning. In fact, only last week on your way home from work you heard cries as you passed by a local reservoir and when you investigated you found that a young boy had fallen in and was struggling to drag himself out. Happily, he was quite near to dry land, so you were able to reach into the water and pull him out, albeit you did ruin your work shirt in the process.

Does the fact you saved a child’s life last week mean you’re not obliged to go ahead with the rescue this week?

It makes no difference that I saved a child’s life last week, I’m still obliged to go ahead with the rescue this week.
It does makes a difference that I saved another child’s life last week. I’m not obliged to go ahead with the rescue this week.

#19197

wonder what would happen if we said no to any one of these

#19198

DROWNING CHILDREN CITY

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#19199

STILL OBLIGATED

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#19200

the second option is evilmaxxing. one rescue per month quota sorry kid

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#19201

do you accept lying to all your coworkers that you valued your job more then someone elses life, or do you tell them and potentinally ruin relationships

#19202

Morally obligated to fund guardrails on this lake or something

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#19203

after the fifth child i would probably start looking for the child drowner

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#19204

these questions are easy, just save the kid. I’m sure this will have no troubling implications later on in the quiz

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#19205

HE ALMOST BEAT YOU
YOU ARE DOING GREAT ARETE

#19206

What is the basis to any moral obligation?

Isn’t is entirely subjective?

Can an obligation ever be subjective?

#19207

the obligation is to flip off peter singer by pointing out the existence of false dichotomies

#19208

Multiple colleagues are already aware that i value my job more than everyone’s lives, my own included

#19209

Yup, that’s got to be the morally sound response. The fact you dirtied your work shirt rescuing some kid last week surely doesn’t annul your obligation to help a child this week who may well drown without your intervention.

Okay, we’re now going to widen our focus a little to see whether this alters how you view the issue of moral obligation as it applies here.

Water Safety

It’s possible that you’re not aware that in the United States drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury/death for children aged 1 to 14 years. Does the fact that saving this particular child’s life won’t contribute towards solving the more general problem of water safety mean that you’re not obligated to save the child after all?

No, I still have a moral obligation to save the child.
Yes, actually it does mean I do not have a moral obligation to save the child.

#19210

Everything I want to do is moral and everything I don’t want to do is immoral