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    • by Frank Paynter on June 9, 2024

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

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    Martin Seligman 06.10.06 at 12:00

    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.

    jr 06.10.06 at 8:16

    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.

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