Andrew Schultz Is Tasked With Answering Ethical Conundrums, Brain Explodes
If you’ve ever wanted to listen to Andrew Schulz talk about incest, you’re in luck. There’s a good chunk of the latest episode of Flagrant that’s got incest jokes. Are they good incest jokes? Of course not, as comedy is like the eighth most important priority for this podcast. As further evidence of that point, this week’s guest on the podcast is Alex O’Connor a YouTuber/podcaster philosopher who interviews experts about the big bang, religion and the ethical dilemmas of Chat GPT. While O’Connor has 1.61 million Youtube subscribers, he’s not a comedian.
Unsurprisingly, O’Connor is some of the biggest comedic relief anyway, mostly because he challenges Schulz and the rest of the Flagrant panel to evaluate their own moral codes. The show gets into opinions on incest, bestiality, factory farming and pedophilia in the church.
Schulz is, about halfway into the episode, presented with the trolley problem. “The classic trolley problem is that a trolley is running down a track and there are five people tied to the track,” O’Connor explains. “You’ve got one on the other side or one on another track. And they’ve got a lever that’s next to you, and you can pull the lever. If you pull the lever, five people are saved and the trolley runs over one person. And the question is simply, ‘Would you pull the lever?’”
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The rest of Schulz’s cabal quickly answer the question — two choose not to pull the lever, one pulls the lever. Schulz, as the host, stretches the scenario out a bit. “Are we allowed to ask questions about the people? Like age for example might be important?”
Then, in what cannot be a surprise to anyone who has ever listened to more than five minutes of Schulz’s podcast, he needs the scenario broken down to him again because he can’t decide. Ultimately he decides he wouldn’t pull the lever either. Then he says: “I feel this way about abortion, right? Like you know one or two or four is fine, but like a thousand? Eventually you have to pull the lever on that girl.”
Well, I have great news, Andrew. No one person is getting a thousand abortions. Then, though, the trolley problem becomes a question about abortion. One infant or a thousand zygotes? This goes on and on; the boys are all tasked with figuring out their own moral codes and the reasons they hold their beliefs.
Honestly, they should do this as a thought exercise once a week. It might help Schulz have a better understanding for what he’s voting for in the next election.
