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Editorial

What Should We Do?

by Rick Lewis

Even someone who has no interest in the meaning of language, the underlying nature of reality, the existence of God or the problem of other minds, someone who in short thinks philosophy is a load of old rubbish, will from time to time have to think about ethics. This is because life sometimes forces us to makes difficult and uncomfortable choices with significant consequences for ourselves or for other people. Some people feel that this is rather unfair of life, but it seems to keep on happening and repeated complaints have so far failed to prevent this.

Ethicists sometimes talk about fairly exotic moral dilemmas when discussing ethical problems, which is perhaps understandable – they are creating examples to make particular points more clearly. Also colourful examples spice up academic papers which might otherwise be even duller than necessary.

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