tut comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Klevador 14 April 2012 06:20:47AM *  0 points [-]

Tom: "Diana, have you ever confronted a moral dilemma?"

Diana: "I have spent my life confronting real dilemmas. I have always found moral dilemmas to be the indulgence of the well-fed middle class."

— Waiting for God (TV Series)

Comment author: tut 16 April 2012 12:22:01PM 4 points [-]

Is there a point to this quote, besides that this diana character doesn't understand the term 'moral dilemma'?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 April 2012 09:21:42PM 2 points [-]

That the kind of "moral dilemmas" philosophers tend to contemplate, tend to be very different to the kind of dilemmas people encounter in practice.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 28 April 2012 10:12:13PM *  -1 points [-]

Perhaps that it requires significant time and cognitive energy to make difficult decisions in general or reflectively modify one's moral system in particular?

ETA: can someone explain the downvote?