Re: Psych/Philo: Brains want to cooperate

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 19:14:55 MDT


Camp, Christopher wrote:...

>a gedanken experiment where George (an individual human) is given two
>options -
>1) George dies. Everyone else lives.
>2) George lives. Everyone other human dies.
>...I would choose to allow my family,
>friends and the rest of humanity live. My first guess is that many people
>would make this same decision.
>
...Unless George is an Earth-Firster. He would will the death
of every other human, theorizing that this would allow other
animals to prosper. spike



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