Interesting. That’s a clever solution to the confederate problem.
Personally, I know I’m never quite prepared to discard the possibility that I am completely out of my mind and/or physics might behave in a drastically unexpected way any moment. Obviously I don’t assign this a high probability, but higher than average, I think. So in situations where everyone else seems to agree about something that seems wrong to me—especially something arbitrary/trivial, as it would almost necessarily be in an ethical test situation—it wouldn’t take much to get me to assume that I’m simply the one who’s wrong.
Interesting. That’s a clever solution to the confederate problem.
Personally, I know I’m never quite prepared to discard the possibility that I am completely out of my mind and/or physics might behave in a drastically unexpected way any moment. Obviously I don’t assign this a high probability, but higher than average, I think. So in situations where everyone else seems to agree about something that seems wrong to me—especially something arbitrary/trivial, as it would almost necessarily be in an ethical test situation—it wouldn’t take much to get me to assume that I’m simply the one who’s wrong.