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Reply to comment by PancAshAsh in Thought experiments claim to use our intuitive responses to generate philosophical insights. But these scenarios are deceptive. Moral intuitions depend heavily on context and the individual. by IAI_Admin
When we talk about ethical thought experiments like, would you take the organs out of a living person, to save the lives of five other people, the fact that in daily-life situations most people agree and in thought experiment situations there is disagreement and small changes make a big difference could be explained by the idea that human moral intuition is not based on a few ground pricinciples, like "don't murder" or "maximize happiness", but instead on many ideas, formed in practical daily life.
That's one critique of ethical thought experiments: They presuppose there is an elegant set of a few universal moral ground-laws and those moral axioms are connected to moral intuition.
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