Thomas L. Knapp wrote: TK) The central mistake of _any_ political philosophy _may_ be believing that a large set of moral lessons which can be drawn from the interactions of _any_ particular group will easily generalize to _all_ groups. (TK
Indeed, that's why I'm extremely suspicious of any absolutist interpretation of an ethical principle. Where you may see a little wiggle room in a principle as a vice, I see it as sometimes a virtue. TK) I reject the notion that "trolley problem" necessarily deterministically decompresses into "to the extent that private charity fails to provide a safety net [...] (TK I didn't imply that it did. I just implied that it rebuts the idea that having clean hands should be of absolute (or arbitrarily high) importance in one's ethics.
