That is exactly what I am contending. We solved the same problem in the same way, we just happened to be on different sides of the answer.
I got lucky. It was lucky, that I was both the person forced to answer the question and the correct answer. I didn't have to answer the trolley problem, and so I don't have to live knowing what my answer is. It can remain a hypothetical for me. But if I didn't get lucky, I would still be dead. Everyone I love would be dead. Maybe the entire population of Cairo would be dead.
And I already expressed my feelings on luck as a virtue.
You're not made for an ideal world. You're made for a world where people make shitty unwinnable games and tie other people to train tracks for the sake of forcing people to make difficult choices. You've succeeded where I don't know if I could.
I'm not saying you should take pride in it. Just that you should do the same amount of not taking pride in it as I'm doing.
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I got lucky. It was lucky, that I was both the person forced to answer the question and the correct answer. I didn't have to answer the trolley problem, and so I don't have to live knowing what my answer is. It can remain a hypothetical for me. But if I didn't get lucky, I would still be dead. Everyone I love would be dead. Maybe the entire population of Cairo would be dead.
And I already expressed my feelings on luck as a virtue.
You're not made for an ideal world. You're made for a world where people make shitty unwinnable games and tie other people to train tracks for the sake of forcing people to make difficult choices. You've succeeded where I don't know if I could.
I'm not saying you should take pride in it. Just that you should do the same amount of not taking pride in it as I'm doing.