that's a very good question ! right now the only personal goal that matters is what we can accomplish on this ship with regard to inmate-specific goals and also general improvements to our community here at large
i suppose success in those areas remains to be seen but i believe they can be achieved :)
I'm afraid that's the crux of the issue. You cannot outsource your decisions ad infinitum — there always comes a time when one need choose. The road of good intention is pitted with graves.
Corpses have a way of washing up clean. Unusual, isn't it? That this present death scrubbed nothing of our silt.
The cartwright's dillemma is a thought experiment. Indulge me —
A wagon plunges down the street. There are three men in its path; if the wagon is not turned aside, these three men will die. If you turn the wagon aside, one man will die.
There are infinite variations. Perhaps the lone victim is a loved one, or their manner of death asks that you throw them before the cart. Or that those three have committed terrible deeds, and the one an innocent soul. Else that he is an important man, and sparing him today will spare twenty more tomorrow —
The details are not the purpose. Merely a framework to ask oneself: What am I willing to do, to do what is right?
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she's very successful
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she made the right choices for herself and followed through
can't argue with that :)
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anyway
she's not here
[ But Grace is! ... :c ]
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right now the only personal goal that matters is what we can accomplish on this ship
with regard to inmate-specific goals and also general improvements to our community here at large
i suppose success in those areas remains to be seen
but i believe they can be achieved :)
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or failed at a thing they were trying to follow through
after all if their choices were really the right ones
i doubt they'd have ended up here :)
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I've no interest in raving of cults. But I'd not see you jettison your own morality without cause.
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it's a good thing that my own morality puts helping others first, then!
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Are you familiar with the cartwright's dillemma?
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graves aren't as permanent as most people seem to think :)
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The cartwright's dillemma is a thought experiment. Indulge me —
A wagon plunges down the street. There are three men in its path; if the wagon is not turned aside, these three men will die. If you turn the wagon aside, one man will die.
Do you turn the wagon?
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sorry is this supposed to be a hypothetical ?
i might be doing this wrong
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There are infinite variations. Perhaps the lone victim is a loved one, or their manner of death asks that you throw them before the cart. Or that those three have committed terrible deeds, and the one an innocent soul. Else that he is an important man, and sparing him today will spare twenty more tomorrow —
The details are not the purpose. Merely a framework to ask oneself: What am I willing to do, to do what is right?
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are you one of them ?
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in case you were worried about that
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May I show you something, Grace?
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i guess that depends on what you want to show me !
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