On Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 6:13:27 PM UTC-6, Tom Keske wrote:
> NTSB RULES OUT KARMA IN GOP TRAIN CRASH
>
> Washington- A prepared statement from the Honorable Ronald Sumwarts,
> Chairman of the NTSB Board of Inquiry, described in detail why the
> investigation into the collision of a chartered train carrying
> GOP Congressmen near Charlottesville, VA, has ruled out "karma"
> as a possible causal factor.
>
> "NTSB investigators performed due diligence and carefully considered
> the confounding karma question. The investigation quickly led to
> a variant of an old philosophical question, 'The Trolley Problem.'
>
> As a thought experiment, suppose that you could throw a switch
> on a railroad track, causing a trainload of GOP lawmakers hurtling
> to oblivion, and yet, on that same track there was one innocent person
> who would also get killed.
>
> Would it still be justified to throw the switch?
>
> If 'karma', as we call it, supposes that the universe itself has
> a moral code and moves supernaturally to punish wrongdoers for their
> misdeeds, then surely an event which occurred supernaturally would
> have to be justified if carried out as the moral decision of a
> human being having access to the train track relay switch.
>
> Kantian ethics refers to a deontological ethical theory ascribed
> to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. When we act, whether or
> not we achieve what we intend with our actions is often beyond
> our control, so the morality of our actions does not depend upon
> their outcome. What we can control, however, is the will behind
> the action.
>
> Probably, the theoretical hand on the theoretical railroad switch
> that theoretically hurled GOP lawmakers to a theoretical death would
> have intended well, based on the principle of 'the greatest good
> for the greatest number'. If this can be willed to a general principle,
> in which all humans could partake for the greater good, then it
> would become a categorical imperative.
>
> We consulted numerous professors of philosophy who scratched
> their chin whiskers wisely, and pondered what would constitute
> the 'greatest good.'
Was karma investigated for race and gender issues, along with the makeup of the ranks of philosophy professors?
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