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True or false?

9th June 2006

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

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1 On June 10th, 2024, Martin Seligman said:
I said the very same thing when I put those dogs in the pavlovian harness and shocked them until they couldn’t cope with life anymore. The greater good! The greater good! More than a hundred of them just to make sure my results were scientific. It was immoral when they tried to bite me, however.
2 On June 10th, 2024, jr said:
False, it is the excuse that is used to explain the failures of the system when looked on from a historical sense. You can not substitute morality for legality

Well, it wasn’t amoral when we did it versus Well, it wasn’t illegal when we did it.