Quote of the Day - 2

[johnwillyums]

Moral luck
Main article: Moral luck
The problem of moral luck is that some people are born into, live within, and experience circumstances that seem to change their moral culpability when all other factors remain the same.
For instance, a case of circumstantial moral luck: a poor person is born into a poor family, and has no other way to feed himself so he steals his food. Another person, born into a very wealthy family, does very little but has ample food and does not need to steal to get it. Should the poor person be more morally blameworthy than the rich person? After all, it is not his fault that he was born into such circumstances, but a matter of "luck".
A related case is resultant moral luck. For instance, two persons behave in a morally culpable way, such as driving carelessly, but end up producing unequal amounts of harm: one strikes a pedestrian and kills him, while the other does not. That one driver caused a death and the other did not is no part of the drivers' intentional actions; yet most observers would likely ascribe greater blame to the driver who killed. (Compare consequentialism.)
The fundamental question of moral luck is how our moral responsibility is changed by factors over which we have no control.

Bit heavy eh? Enjoyed the limerick Jan

NB Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philosophy

 

[A Guy]

There's someone in my head but it's not me.
~Pink Floyd, Brain Damage

A Guy

 

[StalkeR]

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
Abraham Maslow

 

[BrightBlessings]

Moral luck
Main article: Moral luck
The problem of moral luck is that some people are born into, live within, and experience circumstances that seem to change their moral culpability when all other factors remain the same.
For instance, a case of circumstantial moral luck: a poor person is born into a poor family, and has no other way to feed himself so he steals his food. Another person, born into a very wealthy family, does very little but has ample food and does not need to steal to get it. Should the poor person be more morally blameworthy than the rich person? After all, it is not his fault that he was born into such circumstances, but a matter of "luck".
A related case is resultant moral luck. For instance, two persons behave in a morally culpable way, such as driving carelessly, but end up producing unequal amounts of harm: one strikes a pedestrian and kills him, while the other does not. That one driver caused a death and the other did not is no part of the drivers' intentional actions; yet most observers would likely ascribe greater blame to the driver who killed. (Compare consequentialism.)
The fundamental question of moral luck is how our moral responsibility is changed by factors over which we have no control.

Bit heavy eh? Enjoyed the limerick Jan

NB Source: List of unsolved problems in philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks for posting this John,I like things that get me cogitating

 

[johnwillyums]

"I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death."
— John Fowles (The Magus)

 

[StalkeR]

They say it's lonely at the top, in whatever you do
You always gotta watch motherf**kers around you

GangStarr

 

[johnwillyums]

"I'm funny how? I mean funny-- like I'm I a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f****in amuse you? How the f**k am I funny?! What the f**k is so funny about me?!"

Tommy (Joe Pesci) Goodfellas

 

[JMH]

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Kahlil Gibran

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[A Guy]

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark.
~Monty Python

A Guy

 

[StalkeR]

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[DocBrown]

All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly.

Chinese Fortune Cookie for Today

 

[Dwarf]

Work is like taking a sledge across the Arctic... Only the lead dog has a pleasant view.
~unknown

 

[StalkeR]

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

 

[A Guy]

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
~Dave Barry

A Guy

 

[StalkeR]

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner

 

[pebbly]

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

- John Lennon​

 

[StalkeR]

It's a man's obligation to stick his boneration in a woman's separation; this sort of penetration will increase the population of the younger generation

Eric Cartman (South Park)

 

[A Guy]

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
~Edgar Allan Poe

A Guy

 

[johnwillyums]

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky

 

[pebbly]

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

- Adlai Stevenson​