Many thought experiments in ethics involve truly bizarre scenarios (Frances Kamm

Many thought experiments in ethics involve truly bizarre scenarios (Frances Kamm

Many thought experiments in ethics involve truly bizarre scenarios (Frances Kamm, for instance, talks about putting $500 into a machine which mechanically saves children). Do the panelists think that overly contrived examples, too far removed from ordinary experience, lead us in the wrong direction and should not be used? Or should a rigorous philosophy of ethics account for all scenarios, including ones which almost certainly will never occur?

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