In the Least Convenient Possible World of this hypothetical, every dust speck causes a constant small amount of harm with no knock-on effects(no avoiding buses, no crashing cars...)
I thought the original point was to focus just on the inconvenience of the dust, rather than simply propositioning that out of 3^^^3 people who were dustspecked, one person would’ve gotten something worse than 50 years of torture as a consequence of the dust speck. The latter is not even an ethical dilemma, it’s merely an (entirely baseless but somewhat plausible) assertion about the consequences of dust specks in the eyes.
In the Least Convenient Possible World of this hypothetical, every dust speck causes a constant small amount of harm with no knock-on effects(no avoiding buses, no crashing cars...)
I thought the original point was to focus just on the inconvenience of the dust, rather than simply propositioning that out of 3^^^3 people who were dustspecked, one person would’ve gotten something worse than 50 years of torture as a consequence of the dust speck. The latter is not even an ethical dilemma, it’s merely an (entirely baseless but somewhat plausible) assertion about the consequences of dust specks in the eyes.
exactly! No knock-on effects. Perhaps you meant to comment on the grandparent(great-grandparent? do I measure from this post or your post?) instead?
yeah, clicked wrong button.