By gum, I’m amazed that fifty comments have gone by and nobody’s mentioned future toddler chopper Vox Day. Sure, it’s nearly a year and a half old, but if anyone had doubt that there are apparently functioning humans out there who would tick the second box and fill in “until my arm got tired”.
The Euthyphro hypothetical does remind me a bit of the Ticking Time Bomb—a thoroughly unrealistic situation designed to cause the quiz-taker to draw a conclusion about more realistic situations that they wouldn’t have come to otherwise.
By gum, I’m amazed that fifty comments have gone by and nobody’s mentioned future toddler chopper Vox Day. Sure, it’s nearly a year and a half old, but if anyone had doubt that there are apparently functioning humans out there who would tick the second box and fill in “until my arm got tired”.
The Euthyphro hypothetical does remind me a bit of the Ticking Time Bomb—a thoroughly unrealistic situation designed to cause the quiz-taker to draw a conclusion about more realistic situations that they wouldn’t have come to otherwise.