Index 
Compassion Epistemology Fate Morality
Streetcar Dilemma: A take on the streetcar problem: throw the switch and either kill no one or several; don’t and kill just one almost for certain. Alternate version: You’re in the switchyard house, when you notice a runaway train, but it’s too late to save a pedestrian in its path, but there is time throw a switch that diverts the train to another track. You saw just a second ago out of the corner of your eye four or five people next to the alternate track. If they are walking toward the track, some will probably be killed; but if they aren’t, no one will die. Do you (I) throw the switch? To me, “No”. But if for you the number of possible deaths is 100? 1000? 1,000.000, do you ever “let” the one die with certainty with no regret? Other than for fate? Which is futile. Fate: “And so” said Patroclus. “you believe in fate.” Yes of course. To me fate is what is, this instant, right now, here: not to be believed in, perhaps worshipped, but not believed in. So of course, I do. What is, is. That is the “fate” facet of God. Where God is everything I don’t “know”, perhaps constrained by everything I “can’t” know. Knowledge: There is much, no, infinite I don’t know that I could know with due attention, but I like not to constrain what I don’t know. That is illogical, as Spock might say. But ISTMRN that some people constrain what is knowable all the time. They seem to tell God how he (or she) must think and feel about things; rather than the other way around; they seem to continually shout about how God feels or thinks from their rooftops. They say they are “just repeating God’s desires”. How dare they, anyone presume to know such. |