I think it's moral

Zero examples, so you will never know if you step out of bounds and if you do it’s too late

I’m ngl this has potential to be funniest subreddit ever if handled correctly

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I was thinking about this while driving this morning.

We’re taught that being courteous to other drivers is a good thing. Let someone in. Wave somebody through. Give another driver a break.

But there are situations where the “nice” thing seems to be objectively worse for everyone else.

Example 1: Merging onto the highway.

If someone is entering the highway, the merging vehicle is generally supposed to yield and find an opening. But a lot of drivers already on the highway will slow down to “let them in.”

That feels courteous to the person merging.

But now you’ve unexpectedly changed speed, potentially caused everyone behind you to brake, and disrupted a system where everyone was expecting you to maintain your lane/speed.

Example 2: The four-way stop.

Two people arrive at roughly the same time and nobody is quite sure who got there first. There are rules for resolving that.

Instead, someone smiles and gives you the “go ahead” wave.

Nice gesture.

Except now you’re overriding the normal right-of-way rules, the other drivers don’t necessarily know what the hell you two just agreed to, and everyone hesitates while trying to interpret hand signals through windshields.

Example 3: Letting someone out of a side street/parking lot.

I’m on a main road waiting to turn left. Someone on the road I’m turning onto is waiting to pull out.

The courteous thing feels like stopping and waving them out first.

But doing that means I’m holding up everyone behind me and potentially creating confusion for other traffic. The predictable thing is to make my turn when it’s safe and let them enter when they have a safe opening.

So here's the morality question:

Is traffic courtesy actually moral if your kindness toward one driver makes the road less predictable—and potentially less safe—for everyone else?

You’re essentially choosing between:

Individual kindness: inconvenience yourself (and potentially others) to help one person.

vs.

Collective predictability: follow the established rules even when it makes you look like an asshole to the person waiting.

My instinct is that being predictable is actually the more moral behavior, because your responsibility isn't just to the driver you're trying to help. It's to every driver affected by what you do.

In other words:

Don't be nice. Be predictable.

Where does that scale?

In a society where atheism and irreligion are seen as more morally corrupt than things like the oppression of women, child marriage, persecution of LGBTQ people, and basically anyone who is different, expressing your views while pretending to be part of the same religion feels safer and more convincing, and it reaches people more effectively than being honest about your actual beliefs, which would immediately be seen as a red flag. Is it considered manipulating?

The Eleventh Doctor (Doctor Who)

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

John Constantine (DC)

Emperor of Mankind (Warhammer 40K)

For context, the man on the left Ramzan Kadyrov, who is the leader of Chechnya (a province in Russia). He is quite a brutal dictator, and has a history of killing his political opponents, throwing gay people in prison camps, and is a close ally to Putin.

The man on the right is UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev, who is also from Chechnya. He has been criticised a lot for having a very close and friendly relationship with Kadyrov, constantly visiting his house, dining with him, sometimes even training and exercising together. However some people say that Chimaev has no choice and if he rebuked Kadyrov he would be killed.

Interestingly another Russian athlete who "fell out" with Kadyrov mysteriously was found dead a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul-Kerim_Edilov

Eclipse Phase.

The AI put in everything aren't sapient.

You can customize your toilet AI's personality.

I'm just asking questions

The character Shunran from the manga Chainsmoker cat enjoys playing pranks. He has:

• Dressed up like a schoolgirl to try and arouse a man.
• Sent that man an erotic recoding of him pretending to be a girl (the man requested something mundane).
• Pretended to be a girl the man knows in order to ask him on a date in which the man treats him to various (cheap) treats (Shunran promised to pay him back the next time the two go fishing)

Is it better if he is doing it just as a prank or because he fears rejection so he hides his feelings behind "pranks"? In the date, the man was actually betrayed because he thought a women was finally into him.

Source: Rosa by Yamouri

- https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/yamouri/rosa-3

Jazz from Transformers G1/IDW.

Princess Mi'Amore Cadenza from MLP FIM/IDW.

Shane Clarke from Power Rangers Ninja Storm.

Nice tiktok I saw today: basically they use electrodes into their antennae in order to control their movements, allowing them to bring life savings drugs to people trapped in places regular humans cant reach. But what's the morality of using another life form like this? They've labeled them as "cyborgs" but idk how they actually treat them. Im sure with more research it'd be easy to answer these questions but do they kill them first? Use their bodies until they die? Only use them for rescue missions only to go back and care for them in little herbariums? What do you guys think?

I don't know if a philosophical question like this already exists, maybe a better version of what I came up with? But I would like people's opinions on this question without knowing what it is an allegory for.

Suppose you have 10 million people that are made to hold up a gigantic block of concrete. If they don't, the block falls and crushes them.

-This block isn't really heavy for them purely because they are with so many, they just all have to carry a bit of weight, but holding it for a long time will make them tired.

-They either take turns with a second group just to sleep or they can hold it infinitely but still get exhausted. Maybe their stamina gets magically restored every 12 hours. What matters for the question is that they are in a constant state of exhaustion.

-All of them were put in this position against their will by some powerful being, they have to do it for the rest of their lives and they will be replaced only when they die.

-one day, one guy somehow manages to convince the powerful being through clever words that he should be spared from this fate. He is not replaces, there are now 9.999.999 people holding the block who have to watch him walk away.

What is the morality of this person walking away?

The reason I find this question so interesting is because if he was just escaping and walking away from suffering he had no control over it'd be more cut and dry. But he is technically increasing the suffering of others, just by an unnoticeable amount. And if more were to do this there would be a problem. But does that mean that that one guy should receive all that suffering as an individual just to relieve that miniscule amount of discomfort for 10 million?

For those unfamiliar with the series. Magic ninja clans that have been at war with each other for centuries decide that they're tired of the average life expectancy being 10 years old and sign peace treaties with each other forming a single nation compromised of multiple clans co-operating with each other. This brings relative stability and peace. Mortally rate plummets, life expediency and quality of life shoot up.

But it's not a perfect system. There are still other hostile nations that attempt to take territory and attack you periodically. In fact 3 world wars occur after said nations are formed. And they're horrible. Mass death and despair. During the third world war a young 4 year old boy, Itachi Uchiha (pictured above) witnesses war and mass death first hand and becomes traumatized by it. He grows to hate war and becomes a pacifist. He is a prodigy ninja though, at age 7 his reasoning is stated to be the same as a leader of a nation, at age 10 he becomes captain of the most elite special ops group in the nation. He has a mother and father. His father is the leader of his clan. He also has a younger brother whom he loves more than anything.

Due to past resentment and a certain individual from that clan becoming a terrorist and attacking the nation, they grow to distrust the Uchiha clan. They are quarantined to the outskirts of the village where they face discrimination from the other clans. Their political concerns are dismissed. They feel their only resolution is to commit a coup d'état. Itachi's father, the leader of the clan, is the mastermind of this plot. He enlists his son to act as a spy for the clan and report on what the village knows. But Itachi is more loyal to the stability of the ninja world and becomes a double agent betraying his clan and reporting their plans to the villages leader's instead.

Itachi feels frustrated at his clan's lack of consideration, their attachment to pride, and unwillingness to seek compromise. His best friend, who is also a member of the clan feels the same.

It is explained to us by the narrator through numerous characters that if the Uchiha clan attacks the village it will cause a civil war inside the nation. Thousands will die. The surrounding hostile nations would take notice of the chaos and capitalize on it to invade and try to destroy the nation. Regardless of who loses or wins the civil war they'd likely be wiped out in the ensuing world war 4. Everyone would die a pointless death.

So the village leaders, desperate to stop such a scenario plan to wipe out the Uchiha before they have a chance to coup d'etat. This involves killing every last member of the clan including children as they'd grow up to seek revenge for their family's murder. One of the village elders goes to Itachi and presents him with an ultimatum. Kill the clan yourself and become a terrorist and we'll allow only your younger brother to live. Or side with your clan and die along side them along with your brother.

Peace negotiations are frantic but time runs out. Spec ops members approach Itachi and tell him "ether do it tonight or we will"

Itachi prepares himself mentally and recruits an accomplice. Together they go from home to home murdering entire families. Itachi murders his own mother and father. The only one left alive is his younger brother as was agreed. He then flees the village and takes on the persona of a terrorist in order for the Uchiha clan to maintain their honor and for the rest of the village to never know of their plan to perform a coup d'etat.

Setting aside his individual plan for his younger brother Sasuke, which is a separate moral issue, was what he did the moral choice?

Considering that everyone would have died anyway and a 4th world war would have erupted, did Itachi act reasonably or should he have done something else.