Most people would also press a button that will save a random human of their country over a random human from another country. Does that mean people have different value depending on which country they are from?
That’s so weird. I would just pick one at random because they are both people I know nothing about besides country status. I understand emotional bias (choosing to save a friend over another random human, and frankly I can understand why: both are a life saved, but one is a person whose death will cause you suffering, and you presumably think the friend is a good person while the random human is a total wildcard). But with the country one… where is the benefit to you, hmm? Where’s the educated guess based on your judgment that this person is good? I don’t think people from my country are more or less moral than someone from another country. And given how many people there are both are probably strangers. I get no benefit or satisfaction from picking the human of my own country over someone else…
Most people would also press a button that will save a random human of their country over a random human from another country. Does that mean people have different value depending on which country they are from?
That’s so weird. I would just pick one at random because they are both people I know nothing about besides country status. I understand emotional bias (choosing to save a friend over another random human, and frankly I can understand why: both are a life saved, but one is a person whose death will cause you suffering, and you presumably think the friend is a good person while the random human is a total wildcard). But with the country one… where is the benefit to you, hmm? Where’s the educated guess based on your judgment that this person is good? I don’t think people from my country are more or less moral than someone from another country. And given how many people there are both are probably strangers. I get no benefit or satisfaction from picking the human of my own country over someone else…
Well, yes, not surprising at all. It’s a monkeysphere thing.
“What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You’ll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.”
(That article really changed how I view people.)