Ethics

 

(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right

If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
If being right means being without you
I'd rather live a wrong doing life
Your mama and daddy say it's a shame
It's a downright disgrace
But long as I got you by my side
I don't care what your people say

Should you ever choose wrong?

“Two wrongs do not make a right.”

“The ends do not justify the means.”

If you believe in these positions, then the lesser of two evils is still evil and should not be chosen.  If you are confronted with a choice between two evils then the best choice is not choosing.

If Donald Trump is truly unfit to be President, as Bill Barr has said, but he would still vote for Trump as President rather than vote for a Democrat, who Bill Barr believes to be evil, then Bill Barr’s best choice is to make no choice at all, e.g. filling in a vote for Mickey Mouse or leaving the ballot  blank.  Yes, in the short term, Democrats might win the Presidency, but in the long term maybe Republicans might learn not to nominate Trump.

The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment in ethics about a fictional scenario in which an onlooker has the choice to save 5 people in danger of being hit by a trolley, by diverting the trolley to kill just 1 person. This was the basis of an episode in the last season of the NBC SitCom “The Good Place’.  In it eventually the truly ethical position was found to be not killing 5 persons or one person, but to destroy the trolley ( kill yourself).  That is how you remain good.  If you ever choose evil, even if it is the lesser of two evils, then you become evil.