Views : 579,020
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Sep 22, 2023 ^^
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Some moral dilemmas are unsolvable by simply choosing A or B. Some dilemmas are like unbeatable games: “the only winning move is not to play.” Ignorance and non-knowledge can often times be the factor that determine the best outcome, because they offer angles, that someone with knowledge and morals, whichever they may be, couldn't see or would be biased against.
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I had this crazy dream once about a zombie apocalypse. I was chilling at home alone, and suddenly, my family showed up, but I couldn't tell if they were zombies or not. So, I panicked and decided to lock all the doors. The weird thing is, I felt super down for the whole week after that dream, like this overwhelming guilt was eating at me. It wasn't until I had a similar dream with a different ending that things started to make sense. But honestly, I still don't know what I'd do in a real zombie apocalypse scenario.
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The improving imagination section of this video hit me like a bus. I had always thought I had good imagination. When you mentioned diversifying the media we consume, however, I saw that maybe it wasn't as good as I thought. I have always had a strange hero/ego complex that dealt with needing to be already talented at everything. When thinking of all of the books I have read, it turns out that the "chosen one" motif is almost always there. It never crossed my mine that perhaps this complex I have was a result of book preferences! Yet it really makes sense as those books usually shaped the way I saw myself and the world. Thank you so much Olivia. This was a fantastic video, and please always go into theory!
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i feel like in most of these dilemmas i'd just freeze up and do nothing.i know the point of them isn't to always be appliceable to real life but i still find it hard to evaluate each outcome when i know that in that situation, the biggest contributing factors to the outcome would be whether i had it in me to kill the baby, whether it even occured to me to kill my own baby, and whether i felt i could do anything at all.
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This is such a fresh take, probably not for those in academic study of philosophical concepts and ethics, but for someone who doesn’t really study it, it is. It really made me think about the question in general. Wonderful video. I am sure I would watch a 3 hour long version, so please make it a series. Nice brookies btw
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I saw a TikTok the other day of a little Irish toddler who presented a moral dilemma to his mom like this:
“You’re driving a car, and in the middle of the road, you see an old man and a baby. What do you hit?”
After a few seconds of thought, the mom says “The old man.”
The toddler then gets all shocked and upset responding with “Why!?”
And the mom replies “He lived his life.”
To which the toddler responds, “I would hit the brakes.”
THAT is the energy I want to be bringing to moral dilemmas.
EDIT: I wrote this mainly as a joke. I know logically we can’t approach all problems like this, I just find it hilarious that a little kid presented with this problem will go
“How is the trolley problem real? Just didn’t kill people bro lol?”
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The use of simplified thought experiments is that you can progressively make them more realistic to pinpoint at precisely what point the persons moral decisions change. this can help reveal the underlying principles at play. Like for example if you hold the position that torture is always wrong then you wouldn't torture Tim but if instead your position hinges on the fact that you think its merely ineffective for the brutality required then you would only change after the scenario became more realistic.
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Thank you for this video. It genuinely makes me feel validated. Throughout my life I've been labelled as indecisive, slow, unpredictable, thinking way too much etc. They're right about indecisiveness not being the right answer when it comes to certain aspects of life, but sometimes it's nice to think a lot and be indecisive. Like you've mentioned in the video at some point, sometimes the right answer to a moral dilemma is to not choose at all or create multiple solutions for the dilemma.
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I'm not sure if she is capable of comprehending how down I am for 2hrs of pure theory. Taking Real Analysis was not only a contributor of a time of my life characterized by despair, but it's also my favorite class I've ever taken. I love theory so much that even when it conditions me to expect failure in everything I do, living without it is unthinkable in my mind. If she ever uploads a video like the one she described at the end of the video, I can guarantee that will watch it attentively in its entirety if I'm able to.
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I’m surprised I sat down for a 35min video and even took notes. I really liked the way you organised personal experiences, scientific findings and philosophical ideas into a coherent piece that made me think about my ethical tendencies and the lack of my imagination. I enjoy thought experiments to break up and reconsider certain views but it is truly difficult to draw wisdom from them since they merely exist in a vacuum. really enjoying these longer videos, hope you keep going with them :)
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( English is my second language so I'm sorry if some phrases of mine sound awkward lol ) I found this video really interesting, just as usual! I've been accompanying your channel for almost a year, and I just wanted to leave a comment for the first time to show you my gratitude for the content brought to us with such great work put into it! I was about to freak out when you mentioned Paulo Freire lol, his works were the driving force behind my interest in education and sociology, and it's always refreshing to see brazilian intellectuals in english spoken videos!
Love your work! The knowledge you spread is of substantial value ❤
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@oliSUNvia
7 months ago
anyone else feel like they talk excruciatingly slow on camera? that's my way of asking you to watch this in 1.5x speed.
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