Submitted by BernardJOrtcutt t3_xuk9z9 in philosophy
Foolhardyrunner t1_ir4jj2p wrote
Reply to comment by JownCluthber in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | October 03, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
Is it better to have corruption while saving more lives or no corruption while more people die seems to be the scenario of this hypothetical.
The captain will know he traded lives for money as will all the survivors. This will either haunt them or they rationalize it making it more likely for them to do corrupt things in the future or a bit of both.
This has future impacts and in the long term seems worse than having more people die, because it could lead to more corrupt decisions that get rationalized.
So I think system 1 is better because of long term impacts
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