So Dororo is good, like really good. But mostly everyone knows that by now, so what’s going on with Dororo’s writing that makes it so intoxicating? In part, it’s due to how it engages with morality and ethics - and why that central conflict that’s even just a little bit murky becomes all the more interesting.
Here’s some of the texts that I’ve previously read that I used to make this video:
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Here’s the study I pulled those Trolley Problem numbers from - I used the USA responses in Table 1 (Q1 & 2), I did not read enough of the paper to draw any conclusions about its hypothesis or conclusion, I only read the methodology as to ensure the means by which the data was acquired wasn’t inappropriate: