Comments on XavierCromartie.com: Solution to the trolley problem

My friend, this blog's slogan is "everyth...

2012-01-12T23:48:36.716-07:00

My friend, this blog's slogan is "everything you know is wrong." A post like this one is exactly what you should expect. Challenging conventional thinking is what I do.

1. I'm having trouble understanding how I'm using a utilitarian argument when arguing against nuking Japan and performing the Holocaust.

2. In utilitarianism, you can justify any action

X, this post seems to be uncharacteristically nons...

2012-01-12T09:16:04.622-07:00

X, this post seems to be uncharacteristically nonsensical. Let me count the ways.

1. You suggest that by allowing the net two lives to be saved, you must allow the murder of millions at the hands of government. This is interesting, but it is also a self-defeating utilitarian argument against utilitarianism.

2. You make a logically impossible claim ("In utilitarianism,

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010: 57% 2011: 43% That's ...

2012-01-08T11:39:02.645-07:00

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010: 57%
2011: 43%

That's not a return to the mean, that's a psychological problem.

Why did you remove your history of football progno...

2012-01-07T23:33:28.460-07:00

Why did you remove your history of football prognostication?

I am not sure what part of my answer you find inco...

2012-01-07T19:26:01.192-07:00

I am not sure what part of my answer you find incomplete. Switching the track is murder, inaction is not murder.

So, the ethically sound response to the trolley qu...

2012-01-07T17:46:56.014-07:00

So, the ethically sound response to the trolley question is to refuse to answer it as asked? It seems like you're throwing in the towel. I don't blame you; I'd go mad if I weren't kept busy enough by trivial things to distract my mind from the infinite answerlessness.