https://deliisle.com/tags/morality/ Recent content in Morality on DELI ISLAND Hugo en-us Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/the-blue-or-red-button-dilemma-and-the-hantavirus-cruise-ship/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/the-blue-or-red-button-dilemma-and-the-hantavirus-cruise-ship/ <p>Recently a new hypothetical moral dilemma made the rounds online, the red button vs blue button dilemma. The dilemma posits that everyone in the world is privately given a choice between a red button and blue button. They are told that if more than 50% press the blue button, everyone lives, but if less than 50% press the blue button, only those who press the red will be left alive. Shortly after this moral dilemma went viral, an outbreak of a deadly virus was discovered on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The popular response to this outbreak seemed to bleed into the discourse around the moral dilemma.</p> https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/2025-02-24-violence/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://deliisle.com/posts/polemics-and-essays/2025-02-24-violence/ <p>There are four major kinds of violence, ordered from most human to least, or in ascending inhumanity.</p> <p>The first, and most understandable, violence is tragic violence. Tragic violence includes violence on accident, unintentional harm imposed unto others. Children hurting one another in play, a traffic collision, a work accident. It may also be deliberate, as with violence in self defense, or in the defense of others. There is also the violence of the stoic soldier or conscript. There is the dedicated soldier who fights because he truly believes in the ideals he fights for, inflicting restrained violence as a solemn necessity, and there is the conscript who is aware of the suffering imposed through war and detests it, yet has no choice but to participate against his will. In World War I, it was a common occurrence that soldiers, often conscripts, would intentionally miss when firing at their enemies, not willing to kill their fellow man. Tragic violence can be seen as violence performed with tears, or an expression of agony, it is violence which displeases both the perpetrator and the victim. Often, tragic violence is seen by society as outside the scope of criminality, or at least in the realm of criminal negligence rather than outright malice. Tragic violence is seen as benign, a natural cost of living life among others.</p>