/lit/ - Literature

>>7128835

It's all good, just letting you know why you're getting such a weird mix of "no fuck off" and reposts of weird mehmeh images in addition to anything serious.

Personally I like the trolley problem a lot. It cuts right to the heart of our convictions as members of liberal-capitalist societies, as >>7128745 makes very explicit. Our cultures tell us that we're obliged to save people's lives if we can, but deep down we all know that our culture's existence supervenes on the past and ongoing destructions of others. It's like the Le Guin story. The fact that we have to ask the question says something really grim about our values and who we are. I also think that just how the dilemma is framed is very illuminating as to our culture: we are asked to imagine ourselves as a man at the helm of a machine, exerting sole control over it, yet no matter what he does with it, the machine will run amok and annihilate human being(s). I think it's a philosophical attempt to point the finger at industrial civilization and say that its very existence is fucked from any previous ethical point of view.

>>6285439
herp derp post the pic retard

>>4401909
I just don't remember if this was used in a card before or not; I can check the archive
the trolly of trickery was from this year tho

>>3806378
>>3806518
>>3809189
>>3810751

my story is interesting, page turning and generally good, but it ends without really being about anything. It's more of an exercise in futility than anything else. He runs and runs until he gets gunned down in the street.

Or I can change the ending, drag things out a bit and shift the tone of the entire bit, he gets abducted and killed by gladiatorial match more or less, but it ends with him still fighting.

what do?

>>3748648
It's a doggy dog world out there anon.

>>3514921