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There are a couple of good films on the subject, my favorite being "Good Kill" with Ethan Hawke, and "Eye in the Sky" (Helen Mirren) has almost the same plot, a year later.
A philosopher is a parasite. All he has done so far is to waste your time.
If our enemies use the same tactic against us, what could be our moral defense/justification for our usage of technology against them?I don't think that result of the battle is adequate to justify that the winner is morally better than the loser.
Those situations are where our exercises on morality using trolley problems become fruitful.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 10/03/2021 15:24:55Those situations are where our exercises on morality using trolley problems become fruitful. No, they are irrelevant. In a war situation you have short and long term objectives and material constraints. Drones give you a previously unthinkable flexibility of who to kill and when, but don't answer any long term objectives. This was eloquently pointed out by H G Wells' The War in the Air, published in 1908, years before military aviation became practicable.
No, they are irrelevant. In a war situation you have short and long term objectives and material constraints. Drones give you a previously unthinkable flexibility of who to kill and when, but don't answer any long term objectives. This was eloquently pointed out by H G Wells' The War in the Air, published in 1908, years before military aviation became practicable.
"To say a person ought to do X implies that he can do X " Obvious rubbish. Why bother with the rest of the lecture?
There is no implication of ability in "ought".
You ought to be able to walk.
Quote from: alancalverd on 12/03/2021 11:08:44There is no implication of ability in "ought".You ought to defuse an active bomb in public place if you can. If you can't do you still ought to?
Absolutely not.The original statement said that duty implies ability. The reverse is true: noblesse oblige etc., but your duty to pay taxes doesn't guarantee your ability to do so.
Income and corporation tax are based on notional profit.
If you have spent the profits on drink and drugs, you still have to pay the tax.