I don’t understand your Puppies question. When you say:
You can choose to press a button to blow up the first box or another button to spare it. After you press the button, some mechanism, that you can’t predict, will decide to blow up the second box or spare it, based on your decision, and then it will decide to blow up the third box or spare it, based on your decision, and so on.
.… what do you mean by “based on your decision”? They decide the same as you did? The opposite? There’s a relationship to your decision but you don’t know which one.
I am really quite confused, and don’t see what moral dilemma there is supposed to be beyond “should I kill a puppy or not?”—which on the grand scale of things isn’t a very hard Moral Dilemma :P
“There’s a relationship to your decision but you don’t know which one”. You won’t see all the puppies being spared or all the puppies being blown up. You will see some of the puppies being spared and some of them being blown up, with no obvious pattern—however you know that your decision ultimately caused whatever sequence of sparing/blowing up the machine produced.
I don’t understand your Puppies question. When you say:
.… what do you mean by “based on your decision”? They decide the same as you did? The opposite? There’s a relationship to your decision but you don’t know which one.
I am really quite confused, and don’t see what moral dilemma there is supposed to be beyond “should I kill a puppy or not?”—which on the grand scale of things isn’t a very hard Moral Dilemma :P
“There’s a relationship to your decision but you don’t know which one”. You won’t see all the puppies being spared or all the puppies being blown up. You will see some of the puppies being spared and some of them being blown up, with no obvious pattern—however you know that your decision ultimately caused whatever sequence of sparing/blowing up the machine produced.