Tom: “Diana, have you ever confronted a moral dilemma?” Diana: “I have spent my life confronting real dilemmas. I have always found moral dilemmas to be the indulgence of the well-fed middle class.”
Tom: “Diana, have you ever confronted a moral dilemma?”
Diana: “I have spent my life confronting real dilemmas. I have always found moral dilemmas to be the indulgence of the well-fed middle class.”
— Waiting for God (TV Series)
Is there a point to this quote, besides that this diana character doesn’t understand the term ‘moral dilemma’?
That the kind of “moral dilemmas” philosophers tend to contemplate, tend to be very different to the kind of dilemmas people encounter in practice.
Perhaps that it requires significant time and cognitive energy to make difficult decisions in general or reflectively modify one’s moral system in particular?
ETA: can someone explain the downvote?
— Waiting for God (TV Series)
Is there a point to this quote, besides that this diana character doesn’t understand the term ‘moral dilemma’?
That the kind of “moral dilemmas” philosophers tend to contemplate, tend to be very different to the kind of dilemmas people encounter in practice.
Perhaps that it requires significant time and cognitive energy to make difficult decisions in general or reflectively modify one’s moral system in particular?
ETA: can someone explain the downvote?