My 4 y/o nephew similarly asked me ""Why are we here?" recently. I thought he was asking me why we were at the store and responded accordingly but then he followed it up with, "No. Why are we here on earth?" Like... kid, I'm just giving your parents a break by taking you out to buy bread. I did not sign up for an existential crisis.
That's like that _Everybody Loves Raymond_ episode when Ray gears up to tell Ally about the birds and bees but she asks him why God put humans on Earth and Ray, Debra, Frank and Marie are trying to figure out what to tell her and Robert's having a low-key existential crisis saying things like, "Where are we in the big scheme of things?" and saying how the fruit fly only lives for a day.
Brendan Mohan See I am the inverse- never cared for Veronica Mars. I look forward to every new episode of The Good Place though. I also liked House of Lies, and Party Down is on my top 5 comedies, though she was a recurring guest on that, and not party of the regular ensemble. She is a great actress though; until I saw interviews with her more recently, her performances in those 2 shows made me think that she was a condescending ice queen. Obviously, in reality she is the opposite (kind and warm). Just demonstrates her talent.
First, that was probably humility. Second, there is such a thing as emotional intelligence, which she has in spades. Third, just because you don't know one thing doesn't mean that you aren't intelligent- intelligence is the capacity to learn, as opposed to knowledge, which is the storing of information. There are bio-engineers that can't fix their cars, and rocket scientists who don't know how to make a cobb salad. Just because you don't have the information at a certain point doesn't mean that you can't learn it. Assuming for a second that she wasn't being modest, and flattering Colbert about the amount of work that goes into hosting a talk show, she was obviously able to figure it out on the fly, because she rocked as a host. In the modern vernacular, "quit hating, you sorry a*s b*tch!"
Chidi gets the worst stomach ache of all time as he searches frantically for a book of philosophy on earth and his mind is boggle so hard he passes out
Why is earth is more of a deep ? Then how is earth how is earth you weigh pros an cons but why is earth can answer those pros an cons an much more through deep thought
Warrior Son - from the Earth's perspective it's fine. We, and the damage to which we are contributing, are an almost insignificant blip. The Earth has seen species come and species go, seen ice ages and high-oxygen mega fauna ages. It'll be here long after we are gone.
My 3yr old daughter tackled me in my bed while I was sleeping on my stomach and started frantically messing with my hair and I asked her, “What are you doing?” And she told me she and her sister wanted to play keep Kerplunk but her sister said “the box said they needed adult supervision so they needed to borrow the eyes in the back of my head that I use to catch them doing things they shouldn’t be doing”.
A 4 years old boy stopped me from being a teacher by asking me who made God. I was 16 years and realized I was not as well prepared for life as I thought
tady2002 Joan Rivers was Johnny Carson’s permanent fill in.. but when she took a shot at her own late night show on another network.. he never spoke to her again. Her show didn’t make it.. that ended her late night career.
Michael presenting the problems with the current point system to The Good Place committee was my favorite scene. Unfortunately they took some of the good parts of it out of the Netflix edit.
@@FlameOnTheBeat I used to feel the same way, but I've really warmed up to Dax. Just listen to the way he talks about Kristen, and you realize he leaves most men in the dirt when it comes to appreciating what he has. They work really well together, and clearly have a lot of fun with each other.
Choose one of the 10 people and scrap them for parts, they were going to die anyway and you don't need the organ that was failing in them. Yes, you guessed it, I am a janitor. Besides you need another pair of hands to help do all of those surgeries and someone to clean up afterwards.
here's the thing on that scenario vs the other: here you have 10 sick people and one healthy one. Why does the healthy one have to die in order to save 10 sick people. What did he do wrong? Stay healthy? That doesn't make sense. In the end, we all die. That's life. So here you just have to say, shit this sucks, but that's life.
Guys, honestly the follow up question doesn’t make sense - you can’t randomly stick people’s organs into different bodies! For all we know the janitor is not a suitable donor and his death wouldn’t help anyone...
Colbert's audience seems to just be there for the political humor. I swear you could go in there and just yell TRUMP SUCKS and the place would light up. I agree with the sentiment, but I just have a hard time understanding how people just want to talk politics all day.
Wow great joke... Try another idiot calling trump a child. Checked the metrics lately? All the media can do is whine because America is winning on economy, job numbers, trade deals. You don't have a murdering rapist apoligist in the White house. - Clintonbodycount.com -Trump is good. Watch him unedited instead of what the media shows you. He's great.
Maybe "The Good Place" and "Parks and Recreation" being on NBC had something to do with her going on the ABC late-night comedy show? A lot of times, the people running the network are reluctant to promote shows on rival networks. Just a guess, though.
I feel like either Colbert or her should have mentioned the crazy fun times she had with his predecessor, craigy ferg She did like 20 appearances (watched them all) and they were so funny and wonderful together
@@Heylow1 Craig Ferguson was not his predecessor though....... Craig Ferguson was James Corden's predecessor. Stephen Colbert took over from David Letterman...
The first time I saw Kristen was on Craig Ferguson and instantly fell in love. Then I watched Veroncia Mars and realised she was a phenomenal actress too. It's almost annoying how lovely and talented she is.
When she was 4 my eldest daughter asked while we out for a walk. "Why do they say not to touch electricity cables on pylons, when birds are fine sitting on them?" I had no idea! This was many years before the internet and Google (my daughter is now 37) so I had to bluff and say it was because they had special feet... She believed me! I have since found out what my answer should have been.
the electric only shock things that have feet planted on the ground. Those cable contain electric that want to get out of it, the pylon keep it up there, when you touch the cable the electric flows thru you to the ground. To avoid getting shock you have to wear rubber shoes & avoid touching those cables because there's some things which electric can't flow thru.
@@xponen when it comes to the big high voltage lines, rubber shoes wouldn't be enough to protect you, in case anyone decides to go climbing one day.. don't :p
Touching two wires at once would do the trick too. Some larger birds can get killed this way. Because of that there are special guards on some pylons to prevent birds from being able to touch 2 wires at once.
@@xponen you don't have to have your feet on the ground. If a bird touches two power lines at once it will get zapped. Difference between being grounded and having feet on the ground
I was way way way too late on the Craigggggggggggggggggggg Ferguson tip. Dude was so funny and interviews were great. Also, solidified for me, the best guest/host relationship in all of talk show history (even though Coco's my favorite host ever): Kristen and Craig - match made in Heaven.
yeah he was the best, his show was pure chaos and fun. i miss it all the time. his best interviews was when he interviewed robin williams, those two together were absolute genius, had me laughing non stop
There's a compilation of most of her appearances on his show that is four hours long, and it's great to watch because it reflects his growth as a host, and perhaps Kristen as a star. In his later years Craig was comfortable and purposefully awkward, whereas earlier in his career he was just awkward. All hosts tend to go through that period, it's just funny to see that change over the many appearances of a single guest on his show.
Awesome post, Conan is my fav as well xP And I was late late to discover Craig through TH-cam after the show was ended. Love his interviews with audience members at the beginnings of shows, and, of course, Geoff Peterson xP
There seems to be a common misunderstanding in some of the comments here. These philosophical questions are not meant to be taken literally, they are constrained hypothetical scenarios, the purpose of which is to get you to challenge assumptions about ethical positions, or the value of life etc. Real life situations have so many variables that it can be difficult to home in on the foundational truths, because we get lost arguing over trivial, peripheral aspects. The simplified philosophy questions attempt to strip away all of the inconsequential aspects, so you can truly find out what you fundamentally believe. They are not the same as a riddle, where you attempt to get around the constraints to find the answer, it's more a way to highlight that there is no right answer, no absolute certainty. In life, we may often find ourselves between a rock and a hard place, but if you've spend some time considering the difficult questions that philosophy presents, you are more likely to truly know yourself, and be more content with the choices you make.
It will be up to society to decide when you've done your penance but just try to keep that big brain in your pants. Remember "Galapagos", over-developed neocortex just leads to more problems. Be stupid, be part of the solution. Cheers.
@chris kunselman - I hope one day to visit the Galapagos, to see Darwin's finches, the marine iguanas, and...oh shit shit, I've started again! Erm, erm, farts are really funny, I like boobies! Please forgive me. :(
No joke, she’s one of my very favorite public figures. Not only is she a talented actress and very funny, but she seems like a very wholesome and caring person of the variety our world definitely needs a lot more of.
It's edited for time for when it's broadcast, as with any conversation you can have silences and things can fall flat. They will sometimes post unedited interviews on here and you can see how the pacing is off at times. The recent Flight Of The Concords interview is a prime example.
I just need to say Kristen Bell is literally so freaking sweet just like everyone says!! I was going trick or treating with my friends a year or two back and my friends and I saw her dressed as Mrs Claus with her husband and kids. We didn’t want to take pics with her because we didn’t want to make a scene cause she was with her children but we had a whole conversation with her and she was just the sweetest!!!
The question points out the issue with Utilitarian Ethics, in that it is immoral to ask somebody to sacrifice everything for the sake of the group. As a third party, you can easily say "Oh yeah, killing one person is better than killing many." but then once the consent of the one must be given, it is no longer ethical.
which is the answer the show actually gives when the demon dude summons them to that scenario. He can say that he'd rather pull a lever and kill one person than not pull it and allow 5 people to die, but then when it's the surgery situation, the ethics guy suggests that the hypocratic oath makes him harming a patient intentionally impossible, so he would let the 1 live over the 5. Then the demon dude makes the ethics person have to explain this to the families waiting for the 5 to emerge. AKA there is no moral absolutism in theory and everything is situation dependent. It's easy to watch a scenario and make declarations about what is right than it is to live the scenario
Or you just realize that sometimes the right choice doesn't mean it was ethical or good. Sometimes you're just left with bad choices, and you have to go with the least worst option.
Just like I can't see Cobie Smulders in Avengers without asking myself wtf is Robin Scherbatzky doing here, I can't see Kristen Bell without asking myself wtf is Veronica Mars doing here. Anyone else has seen Frozen and been like "Anna ... I know that voice ... OMG IT WAS VERONICA MARS ALL ALONG !"
In case you want to know more; Philippa Foot first created the trolley problem. She was born in the 1920s and died a little under a decade ago. She really changed the game in terms of philosophy and is an incredible philosophical thinker. The trolley problem was then discussed by Judith Jarvis Thompson in her essay “The Trolley Problem”(she’s also known for her defence of abortion!). The essay is only like 15 pages long and is really interesting and pretty easy to understand. The reason why you wouldn’t really feel guilty about pulling the lever to kill the one person on the track is because of positive vs negative duties. Positive duties = the obligation to save people. Negative duties = the obligation not to hurt/kill people. Negative duties are considered more important than positive duties, so when you pull the lever, you’re abiding by your positive duties, but when /you kill/ the janitor or healthy patient, you’re going against your negative duties. Again this is pretty much all explained in Thomson’s essay, and I really recommend it if this is interesting to you!
Its not a technical question, for all intensive purposes, everyone in the hospital has same bloodtype and there's 0 change of organ rejection. Anyway i wouldn't kill the janitor, i'd wait for 1 person to die and use their organ to save all others
Ryiro- I make typos all the time, so no shade, this comment is a PSA. The phrase is, "for all intents and purposes" not "intensive"... Back to the philosophy question about the surgeon. Nothing was said about the following, all of which must be true for the question to work at all on the planet we currently occupy: (a) complex organ transplant surgeries would need to be one man jobs, (b) phones & computers/the internet would have to stop working without electricity going out, (c) the ten people would have to have perfectly staggered urgency commensurate with the timing of the more urgent procedures ahead of them AND the surgeon would have to instantly know what that orcer and timing would be AND not get stressed out by the low bandwidth, (d) all other humans anywhere nearby would have to be dead or AWOL...you do realize transplanted organs are only rarely in the same hospital to begin with, right? They are flown in/delivered by car from a service...& (e) all of the people in the hospital, except maybe the surgeon, would not only have to be the same blood type but they would have to match in ither ways like body size.
"So this is going to go great" Maybe don't count your chickens. They're both naturally funny, but several sections seemed rather stilted, as though Stephen was struggling to keep the conversation going. Craig Ferguson has had by far the funniest interviews (if you could even call them that) with Kristen. They both completely ignored the audience and it just worked so well.
No, you don't kill the janitor. If you're a surgeon who's more concerned with success than murdering innocent people, most likely because you work at an understaffed hospital, then you're a psychotic murderer. You'd do what you can, but it's not the surgeons fault or responsibility to compensate for 911 dispatchers, EMTs, and hospital staff as an excuse to murder someone that didn't volunteer their organs. Also, the janitor wouldn't be a match for them all. They would all die painful deaths.
Also, if this crazy nightmare hospital doesn't have the life support systems to keep the patients alive until appropriate donors are found, it's not going to be able to support them post-op or if their bodies reject the organs. In this scenario those patients with failing organs are going to die. Let the janitor live.
The obvious answer is to take organs from half the group and use them to save the other half. That way you also still have the janitor to help you clean up afterwards.
The Janitor can save all 10 of them, these aren't supposed to be realistic scenarios, just like the surgeon having a 100% success rate. There's no right answer either, these hypotheticals are just designed to make you think about the moral dilemmas and your own ideas of what is ethical.
Kristen without Craig is ...okayyyy but...like a bike without tires, pizza without dough a tree without leaves. But this woman needs to be cloned for the sake of humanity!
My 4 year old nephew said that he doesn't want to be a palaeontologist anymore because he wants to work at Ikea. I told him he can work at Ikea while he's getting his degree. #lifegoals
It's an extremely concerning revelation. Neighbor kid threatened another person like that - about aged 4 at the time. His mom dealt with it and the statement was never repeated. This lady's on air lack of concern or flippancy about it makes her appear to be an airhead.
I think you are projecting something serious onto someone you don't know. She says "we are talking to people, don't worry" indicating that she is taking it seriously and seeking professional help to make sure her child is okay. She can still make a joke of it if she wants. I make jokes about concerning things in my life all the time and it doesn't mean I don't take them seriously, it's just how I process difficult things.
This is a friendly and funny take on a philosophical question... however the actual theory is based on the relationship between belief in free will versus belief in fate.
Can't we believe in both? God's hand is in the weather, machinery, seismic and volcanic activity. He guides animals' instincts. He controls the apparently random movements of papers in the wind. And He inspires people with ideas. But in this setting, people have free will to make choices. That's a big part of what our earthly visit is all about.
the difference between the hospital thing and the trolley thing is that in the hospital scenario, the people are already injured, while the janitor is perfectly healthy. but in the trolley situation, everyone is healthy and well
hahaha!! no more tv, movies & internet for that little girl of hers, omg!! 😯 but, "why is earth??" is an *awesome* question! 👍👍 she's either very scientifically, spiritually or metaphysically curious already...or two or all three of those. and, wow! hadn't heard, "why is there *something* instead of *nothing* ??" in decades, lol!! but guess what: nothing *is* something..because it's a *concept.* all thoughts are things? yes! but the inverse is *also* true: all things are thoughts.. because *think* about it... and as one of my favorite wisdom teachers often expresses.. "what to say now?" 🤔🤔
why is red? why is water? why is blah, blah...we humans try to give purpose to things because that's the way we have developed. Neil D Tyson says, "The universe doesn't owe you anything." and i will add, Deal with it.
@@JohnDoe-nf2ok hi!..& wow!, you can really thought about this, too! awesome sauce & much appreciation for your response. and yes, the "proof" is/would be in our/my/your hands..indeed, not all 'things' can be quantifiably measured by science..which i do have an appreciation for..(my career training actually very much relies on it)...however science/scientists are only people, like us, of course..and as such, *can* be stubborn..and i *believe* we all see through a personal lens/filter the rabbit hole: we may be seeing everyone, including scientists and their outcomes, 100% via our own filter..but taking that to the deepest mind-places, a whole other conversation i think!). but perhaps an agnostic scientist is more objective than an atheistic or religious scientist? 🤔 as a true skeptic, in the purest since, isn't a naysayer..and nor are they a religious believer, so much influenced (like the atheist in a way) that outcomes of their studies might only support their personal biases (one reason i sometimes dig in order to learn who/what organization, however many layers or shell companies deep, who sponsored a study). some researchers, though, seem to look for/notice only that which they 'see' as supporting what they believe they already know..about Life & existence...would an atheist scientist ever be able to prove, for instance, proof of a human or universal soul? would or could they ever accept what might be proof? would a religious one ever be able to prove a negative, the non-existence of anything? like the non-existence of god (however one defines it)?..seems impossible. 😯 taking a long way to get to my point: certain concepts and ideas, so far anyway, might not ever be provable objectively.. "love," for instance (in all its various forms), is something that today i can't imagine handing over to science, to prove..in part, for me because, what seems to not be accepted by determined scientists is that what they have decided is 'the cause' of a sense or feeling of love (hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.).. because these might only be the *symptoms* or the *effects* of a sense of love..chicken or the egg? the dragon or snake that perpetually swallows it's own tail?..yep, a direct experience of some things may turn out to be the only proof there ever is for them..the only thing that makes it real for us. 🙋
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Earth is because.
@@JohnDoe-nf2ok why not
Only plausible explanation.
God damn
Earth is so we don't fall down.
I want to like this comment but it's at 420 likes and I dont want to ruin it so...
My 4 y/o nephew similarly asked me ""Why are we here?" recently. I thought he was asking me why we were at the store and responded accordingly but then he followed it up with, "No. Why are we here on earth?" Like... kid, I'm just giving your parents a break by taking you out to buy bread. I did not sign up for an existential crisis.
Lmaoo I bawled out😭😂😂😂
Damnn that kids going places
That's like that _Everybody Loves Raymond_ episode when Ray gears up to tell Ally about the birds and bees but she asks him why God put humans on Earth and Ray, Debra, Frank and Marie are trying to figure out what to tell her and Robert's having a low-key existential crisis saying things like, "Where are we in the big scheme of things?" and saying how the fruit fly only lives for a day.
this is hilarious
xd
just to suffer
My son at age 5 asked me “Mom, what if my eyes were clocks?”
Suparna oh my god lol kids are so random. but what if they were clocks though 🤔
Then everyone around you would know the time and you would be blind. That’s the answer I would give.
Hahaha 😂😂
"Then you could always see what time it is" 🤷♂️
then answer "then you'll be able to watch".
She is great and The Good Place is an underrated show. Smart and funny, just like her.
I didn’t really care for the good place but I’m hyped as hell for the Veronica Mars revival.
Brendan Mohan See I am the inverse- never cared for Veronica Mars. I look forward to every new episode of The Good Place though. I also liked House of Lies, and Party Down is on my top 5 comedies, though she was a recurring guest on that, and not party of the regular ensemble. She is a great actress though; until I saw interviews with her more recently, her performances in those 2 shows made me think that she was a condescending ice queen. Obviously, in reality she is the opposite (kind and warm). Just demonstrates her talent.
how tf is she "smart" when she just said she can't do simple subtraction when she was hosting on Kimmel?
First, that was probably humility. Second, there is such a thing as emotional intelligence, which she has in spades. Third, just because you don't know one thing doesn't mean that you aren't intelligent- intelligence is the capacity to learn, as opposed to knowledge, which is the storing of information. There are bio-engineers that can't fix their cars, and rocket scientists who don't know how to make a cobb salad. Just because you don't have the information at a certain point doesn't mean that you can't learn it. Assuming for a second that she wasn't being modest, and flattering Colbert about the amount of work that goes into hosting a talk show, she was obviously able to figure it out on the fly, because she rocked as a host. In the modern vernacular, "quit hating, you sorry a*s b*tch!"
I binged both seasons on Netflix.
My son once asked me what I liked better, “trees, or yogurt?”
And which did you choose?
WE NEED AN ANSWER ROCCO
Yogurt Trees are the best. I love getting lost in the froyo forests.
Tell us the answer don’t leave us hanging!!!
if it's dairy yogurt, the question is: What do I like better, the presence of trees or eating blood and pus? Not that difficult to answer...
"why is earth"
normal people: haha child funny
philosphers: *hMMmMmm*
"This is why people hate moral philosophy professors" -The Good Place
Maycee Hufstedler Exactly what i was thinking
Mmmmm, you still believe Earth is real
Chidi gets the worst stomach ache of all time as he searches frantically for a book of philosophy on earth and his mind is boggle so hard he passes out
Chidi Anaconda...
“I know it’s bad that my child threatens me, but she doesn’t have a gun”🤣🤣🤣
It's 'Murrikkka: there's one nearby.
My niece when she was 3, after she bumped her head on table of something asked her mom "take off my head, it hurts"
What my 15 year old classmate said when she hurt her neck in ep class lmao
_depression be like_
Nobody asks "How is earth?"
Why is earth is more of a deep ? Then how is earth how is earth you weigh pros an cons but why is earth can answer those pros an cons an much more through deep thought
Warrior Son - from the Earth's perspective it's fine. We, and the damage to which we are contributing, are an almost insignificant blip.
The Earth has seen species come and species go, seen ice ages and high-oxygen mega fauna ages.
It'll be here long after we are gone.
I’ll do you one better.. Who is Earth?
because we know. We're kinda in a bad place right now.
😔
My 3yr old daughter tackled me in my bed while I was sleeping on my stomach and started frantically messing with my hair and I asked her, “What are you doing?” And she told me she and her sister wanted to play keep Kerplunk but her sister said “the box said they needed adult supervision so they needed to borrow the eyes in the back of my head that I use to catch them doing things they shouldn’t be doing”.
So funny 😆😆😆😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂
_why_ is Gamora?
I will do you one better... When is Gamora?
HollyBlueAgitated Scrolled down and wondered how long it would take turns out not long 😉👍.
@Lucien Hicks No wonder their child ask those sort of questions and threatens to kill her.
🤣🤣🤣
Because Zendaya is meechee.. 🤷🏻♀️
Nothing is better than her sloth meltdown on Ellen’s show. Off to watch it again.
That. Was. Hilarious! I'll meet you at Ellen's
yup!
You guys NEED to watch (in case you haven't already) the one at Ellen's where she plays You Bet Your Daughter, it gets me every time! 😂🙌❤️
You should watch her reaction to game of thrones the red wedding. She's adorable
A 4 years old boy stopped me from being a teacher by asking me who made God. I was 16 years and realized I was not as well prepared for life as I thought
That was one of my first questions as a child and led to my atheism. Kids say the darnedest things
@@sarabeth641 I got kicked out of Sunday school for asking the same question
@@milkandblue Yeah my mom wasn't happy either
Sara Beth 😂😂
No one made God. He is infinite. He's the beginning and the end. He has been forever. No one had to make him.
She is just so cute and wonderful
Steven Colbare That's not your real name use your real name like I do.
WisMicYal11 She is wonderfully pretty.
Hi Max
@Steven Colbare - Ah, you want to pull a Kavanaugh on her
PutinWithAnimals Your name is illegal in most countries 😀😉👍.
Turns out there's more to pulling a liver than to pulling a lever.
Omg, so good!
Haaa good one
_badum tsssshh_
Jim's videos this comment needs far more attention. 👍🏼
Hey ohhh!
She should have a talk show, a late night talk show, she'd be great at it. But seriously why are there no women in late night? I think is time.
I agree.👍
Busy Philips!! Coming soon
tady2002 Joan Rivers was Johnny Carson’s permanent fill in.. but when she took a shot at her own late night show on another network.. he never spoke to her again. Her show didn’t make it.. that ended her late night career.
What about Chelsea Handler? Samantha Bee?
Samantha Bee?
Dax: I'll ask you one time: where is Earth?
Kristen: Yeah, I'll do you one better, WHO IS EARTH?
Daughter: I'LL DO YOU ONE BETTER, WHY IS EARTH?
ph my god this comment winssss
Guardians of the Galaxy.
The trolley scene in season 2 is one of the funniest things I've ever watched.
Larry Smith I agree
Ikr
Michael presenting the problems with the current point system to The Good Place committee was my favorite scene. Unfortunately they took some of the good parts of it out of the Netflix edit.
Michael solution to the trolley question is the best solution regardless
"Who made dogs" is the underrated question here
5 year olds: why is earth?
10 year olds: that’s a stoopid question.
Adults: woahhh
She is actually the most beautiful person in the world.
Your very likely right about that. She's as amazing as it gets.
Or not
Flame Beats by being funny, talented and himself?! He’s super funny in podcasts and interviews... just doesn’t translate to Hollywood movies
@@FlameOnTheBeat I used to feel the same way, but I've really warmed up to Dax. Just listen to the way he talks about Kristen, and you realize he leaves most men in the dirt when it comes to appreciating what he has. They work really well together, and clearly have a lot of fun with each other.
Agreed.
Choose one of the 10 people and scrap them for parts, they were going to die anyway and you don't need the organ that was failing in them. Yes, you guessed it, I am a janitor. Besides you need another pair of hands to help do all of those surgeries and someone to clean up afterwards.
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here's the thing on that scenario vs the other: here you have 10 sick people and one healthy one. Why does the healthy one have to die in order to save 10 sick people. What did he do wrong? Stay healthy? That doesn't make sense. In the end, we all die. That's life. So here you just have to say, shit this sucks, but that's life.
Guys, honestly the follow up question doesn’t make sense - you can’t randomly stick people’s organs into different bodies! For all we know the janitor is not a suitable donor and his death wouldn’t help anyone...
Someone give this woman a medal 🥇
Genius!
5:29
Kristen: Why is Earth?
Subtitle: Why is AIRGT?
Stephen's crowd is so goddamn boring. They dont seem to get her humor at all. Always kills on Conan.
And on Ellen too! She has amazing audience!
Colbert's audience seems to just be there for the political humor. I swear you could go in there and just yell TRUMP SUCKS and the place would light up. I agree with the sentiment, but I just have a hard time understanding how people just want to talk politics all day.
And especially when she was on Craig Ferguson
Conan?!?
It’s because he is not funny.
"Why is earth?" sounds like a question from Trump but it somehow sounds intelligent when coming from a child
MAGA 2020
because a child is more intelligent than trump
mm it's a pretty profound question but yeah it depends on who says it
Rich Wojehowski ...because it’s a deep question...and tRump would never think of it!
Wow great joke... Try another idiot calling trump a child. Checked the metrics lately? All the media can do is whine because America is winning on economy, job numbers, trade deals. You don't have a murdering rapist apoligist in the White house. - Clintonbodycount.com -Trump is good. Watch him unedited instead of what the media shows you. He's great.
"Sure. That's comedy." Genius!
Sure, that's genius.
Never heard that being about this show
How was this the first time she was on Colbert?
The fact she lives in LA probably doesn't help, and having young kids too doesn't help either.
Not her first time on the late show either, just first for Colbert
Maybe "The Good Place" and "Parks and Recreation" being on NBC had something to do with her going on the ABC late-night comedy show? A lot of times, the people running the network are reluctant to promote shows on rival networks. Just a guess, though.
I feel like either Colbert or her should have mentioned the crazy fun times she had with his predecessor, craigy ferg
She did like 20 appearances (watched them all) and they were so funny and wonderful together
@@Heylow1 Craig Ferguson was not his predecessor though....... Craig Ferguson was James Corden's predecessor. Stephen Colbert took over from David Letterman...
She is a National treasure and Americans have the duty and honour of protecting her.
The first time I saw Kristen was on Craig Ferguson and instantly fell in love. Then I watched Veroncia Mars and realised she was a phenomenal actress too. It's almost annoying how lovely and talented she is.
Somebody get Neil deGrasse Tyson on the phone .. the WORLD needs to know .. "WHY. IS. EARTH?!"
He doesn't KNOW the answer! 😏 No one does!!
Drax knew the answer.. but for now, he got snapped.. we need to wait for some time.
There is earth because there is water
Simple
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God knows. God spoke and there was earth!!!!!
EricGR 2Thinkerer
yep. gravity.
When she was 4 my eldest daughter asked while we out for a walk. "Why do they say not to touch electricity cables on pylons, when birds are fine sitting on them?" I had no idea! This was many years before the internet and Google (my daughter is now 37) so I had to bluff and say it was because they had special feet... She believed me! I have since found out what my answer should have been.
the electric only shock things that have feet planted on the ground. Those cable contain electric that want to get out of it, the pylon keep it up there, when you touch the cable the electric flows thru you to the ground. To avoid getting shock you have to wear rubber shoes & avoid touching those cables because there's some things which electric can't flow thru.
@@xponen when it comes to the big high voltage lines, rubber shoes wouldn't be enough to protect you, in case anyone decides to go climbing one day.. don't :p
Yeah, when you don't know, just make shit up. That'll teach your kid the right way! I now wonder a little less how the US came that far.
Touching two wires at once would do the trick too. Some larger birds can get killed this way. Because of that there are special guards on some pylons to prevent birds from being able to touch 2 wires at once.
@@xponen you don't have to have your feet on the ground. If a bird touches two power lines at once it will get zapped. Difference between being grounded and having feet on the ground
Love to hear her talking, her voice is SO pleasant to my ears 😱
I fell in love when she said spoiler alert.
Motherforking shirt!
Kristens daughter: why is earth?
Chidi: ✨I N T E R E S T I N G✨
She doesn’t age....
plastic surgery
@Haywood
protein facials AHEHAEHIAHUAHEUAHUAHEUHA
she is the female Paul Rudd in that respect.
Nah.. there's a big difference from Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Blood masks
I was way way way too late on the Craigggggggggggggggggggg Ferguson tip. Dude was so funny and interviews were great. Also, solidified for me, the best guest/host relationship in all of talk show history (even though Coco's my favorite host ever): Kristen and Craig - match made in Heaven.
yeah he was the best, his show was pure chaos and fun. i miss it all the time. his best interviews was when he interviewed robin williams, those two together were absolute genius, had me laughing non stop
There's a compilation of most of her appearances on his show that is four hours long, and it's great to watch because it reflects his growth as a host, and perhaps Kristen as a star. In his later years Craig was comfortable and purposefully awkward, whereas earlier in his career he was just awkward. All hosts tend to go through that period, it's just funny to see that change over the many appearances of a single guest on his show.
Craig and Donald Glover was a really cute one too
Awesome post, Conan is my fav as well xP And I was late late to discover Craig through TH-cam after the show was ended. Love his interviews with audience members at the beginnings of shows, and, of course, Geoff Peterson xP
Thanks for the tip, Andrew! :p Donald Glover on Craig is hilarious, especially the part where Craig says Donald must've been a bully victim xP
There seems to be a common misunderstanding in some of the comments here. These philosophical questions are not meant to be taken literally, they are constrained hypothetical scenarios, the purpose of which is to get you to challenge assumptions about ethical positions, or the value of life etc. Real life situations have so many variables that it can be difficult to home in on the foundational truths, because we get lost arguing over trivial, peripheral aspects. The simplified philosophy questions attempt to strip away all of the inconsequential aspects, so you can truly find out what you fundamentally believe. They are not the same as a riddle, where you attempt to get around the constraints to find the answer, it's more a way to highlight that there is no right answer, no absolute certainty. In life, we may often find ourselves between a rock and a hard place, but if you've spend some time considering the difficult questions that philosophy presents, you are more likely to truly know yourself, and be more content with the choices you make.
Stop being logical and coherent on a TH-cam comment thread, you're making the rest of us look bad.
@chris kunselman - My profuse apologies Chris, I couldn't help myself. I'm going to stand in the corner and think about what I've done!
It will be up to society to decide when you've done your penance but just try to keep that big brain in your pants. Remember "Galapagos", over-developed neocortex just leads to more problems. Be stupid, be part of the solution. Cheers.
@chris kunselman - I hope one day to visit the Galapagos, to see Darwin's finches, the marine iguanas, and...oh shit shit, I've started again! Erm, erm, farts are really funny, I like boobies! Please forgive me. :(
That's ok, I think you're NOT getting it now. Besides I'm sure you meant "Dagwood's Inches", the infamous Blondie Tijuana Bible.
She's so funny and incredibly smart!
I can't believe I just discovered her!! So underrated, for real!
No joke, she’s one of my very favorite public figures. Not only is she a talented actress and very funny, but she seems like a very wholesome and caring person of the variety our world definitely needs a lot more of.
They cut something out at 5:54
Colbert went from arms on the table to folded in half a second
Husain Murry Seems like a commercial break but they didn’t want to split this video into two parts?
That’s also about how long it takes to do it. Breaking news, there’s dozens of people editing these shows.
Good catch let's you know how much of it is scripted. Goes to show on TV and TH-cam we are fed with different spoons.
They very rarely show the whole conversation on the show, it is almost always edited.... just most of the time it is edited more seamlessly.
It's edited for time for when it's broadcast, as with any conversation you can have silences and things can fall flat. They will sometimes post unedited interviews on here and you can see how the pacing is off at times. The recent Flight Of The Concords interview is a prime example.
I love how they upload the entire interview in one single video. Makes everything so simple.
She is SO AWESOME and The Good Place is some of the best TV I've watched in ages.
Miss you, craig ferguson
Right? His interviews with her were so good. Hell all of his interviews were awesome.
Did his show get cancelled or what? He just kind of disappeared on me!
@@rachelel9087 no he quit after some 10 years doing the show. He said he wanted to pursue other things in life
I am so proud of you Kristen what a wonderful organization . I've been looking for somewhere to put my energy . Thank you
3:38 "MOM StOp EmBaRrASing mE ON TV nOW Daddy is MY FaVoRite For tHe ReSt Of yoUR liFe"
“Why is Earth?” Glorious! My nieces, 3 and 6, throw these out every day. My sister & brother-in-law 🤯
I would ASK the janitor... and if he said no, it's all on him.. the monster.
what if you are the janitor?
nonameprofil Oh my... *clutches organs*
I'd say the heart failure will die first (because duh) and use their organs to safe all the other patients.
The janitor, by keeping the hospital clean, saves more lives than the surgeon anyway.
No because you shallow pricks only respect the level of ppls profession.
Standout performance from her in "Deadwood", many years ago. Outstanding series.
Honestly this audience doesn’t do her justice. I wish I were there so I could laugh so loud at everything she says. She’s just naturally hilarious
I just need to say Kristen Bell is literally so freaking sweet just like everyone says!! I was going trick or treating with my friends a year or two back and my friends and I saw her dressed as Mrs Claus with her husband and kids. We didn’t want to take pics with her because we didn’t want to make a scene cause she was with her children but we had a whole conversation with her and she was just the sweetest!!!
I hate those hard cuts. now I want to see the uncut one ^^
She seems so awesome, so cute, charismatic and funny.
The question points out the issue with Utilitarian Ethics, in that it is immoral to ask somebody to sacrifice everything for the sake of the group. As a third party, you can easily say "Oh yeah, killing one person is better than killing many." but then once the consent of the one must be given, it is no longer ethical.
which is the answer the show actually gives when the demon dude summons them to that scenario. He can say that he'd rather pull a lever and kill one person than not pull it and allow 5 people to die, but then when it's the surgery situation, the ethics guy suggests that the hypocratic oath makes him harming a patient intentionally impossible, so he would let the 1 live over the 5. Then the demon dude makes the ethics person have to explain this to the families waiting for the 5 to emerge.
AKA there is no moral absolutism in theory and everything is situation dependent. It's easy to watch a scenario and make declarations about what is right than it is to live the scenario
except that with 10 patients you'd just wait for the first to die and strip that one for parts, since they all had different organ failures.
This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors.
Or you just realize that sometimes the right choice doesn't mean it was ethical or good. Sometimes you're just left with bad choices, and you have to go with the least worst option.
She's so cute.
THEY HAVEN'T MET BEFORE?!?!!?!! Two of the greatest minds I know in Hollywood! 😍😊
Ur so wrong
25 years old and i still have a hard time with that question. Smart kid
I love The Good Place...
She is so lovely!
My kid once asked me, "Where did I come from?"
I don't have a kid, so I said, "My imagination."
Surprisingly good interview for Colbert
Just like I can't see Cobie Smulders in Avengers without asking myself wtf is Robin Scherbatzky doing here, I can't see Kristen Bell without asking myself wtf is Veronica Mars doing here.
Anyone else has seen Frozen and been like "Anna ... I know that voice ... OMG IT WAS VERONICA MARS ALL ALONG !"
She is radiant and wonderful!
Why is Gamora?
i am so happy his beart is off. handssome and young again. Thanks the best host, youare doing a good service to the public.
This reminds me of “why is gamora” if you know you know
In case you want to know more; Philippa Foot first created the trolley problem. She was born in the 1920s and died a little under a decade ago. She really changed the game in terms of philosophy and is an incredible philosophical thinker. The trolley problem was then discussed by Judith Jarvis Thompson in her essay “The Trolley Problem”(she’s also known for her defence of abortion!). The essay is only like 15 pages long and is really interesting and pretty easy to understand.
The reason why you wouldn’t really feel guilty about pulling the lever to kill the one person on the track is because of positive vs negative duties. Positive duties = the obligation to save people. Negative duties = the obligation not to hurt/kill people. Negative duties are considered more important than positive duties, so when you pull the lever, you’re abiding by your positive duties, but when /you kill/ the janitor or healthy patient, you’re going against your negative duties. Again this is pretty much all explained in Thomson’s essay, and I really recommend it if this is interesting to you!
“Sure, that’s comedy.”
Such a nice button
Women helping women touches my heart and soul and makes me cry
My little brother when he was 5 asked me "Does water sink?"
Kristen is absolutely adorable. I love her and I want to be her best friend.
The janitor thing doesn’t work because of blood type. How do you know the janitors organs won’t be rejected?
Its not a technical question, for all intensive purposes, everyone in the hospital has same bloodtype and there's 0 change of organ rejection. Anyway i wouldn't kill the janitor, i'd wait for 1 person to die and use their organ to save all others
Ryiro- I make typos all the time, so no shade, this comment is a PSA. The phrase is, "for all intents and purposes" not "intensive"...
Back to the philosophy question about the surgeon. Nothing was said about the following, all of which must be true for the question to work at all on the planet we currently occupy: (a) complex organ transplant surgeries would need to be one man jobs, (b) phones & computers/the internet would have to stop working without electricity going out, (c) the ten people would have to have perfectly staggered urgency commensurate with the timing of the more urgent procedures ahead of them AND the surgeon would have to instantly know what that orcer and timing would be AND not get stressed out by the low bandwidth, (d) all other humans anywhere nearby would have to be dead or AWOL...you do realize transplanted organs are only rarely in the same hospital to begin with, right? They are flown in/delivered by car from a service...& (e) all of the people in the hospital, except maybe the surgeon, would not only have to be the same blood type but they would have to match in ither ways like body size.
i love her so much!! and The Good Place!
Omg I love her vibe 😄
Kirsten: "We deal with tough stuff." Colbert: "Sure, that's comedy." -- best definition of comedy I have ever heard!
“strip him for parts...” 😂😂😂
I just started watching Veronica Mars yesterday. Mrs. Bell is so incredible. She oozes talent.
"I'm gonna ask you this one time, where is Earth?"
"Yeah, I'll do you one better, who is Earth?"
"I'll do YOU one better, why is Earth?"
Okay this interview was INCREDIBLE!!!!
Much like Drax's " Why is Gamora" 😂😂😂
In the trolley question, there's also variations were the one person is somebody you know or even love.
Bell is the best.
What a wonderful person
i love her so muchhhh
She is so charming! I love her! Wish the crowd understood her sense humor though
Isn’t it, that the one person is somebody you know and the ten people are strangers?
Yeah, I was thinking the twist was going to be that the one person is your spouse, or someone close to you.
I absolutely love their conversation
the audience are quite mehhhh there were some really good jokes and they’re like *giggle*
I finished both seasons of the good place in 2 days... 🙃♥️
"So this is going to go great" Maybe don't count your chickens. They're both naturally funny, but several sections seemed rather stilted, as though Stephen was struggling to keep the conversation going. Craig Ferguson has had by far the funniest interviews (if you could even call them that) with Kristen. They both completely ignored the audience and it just worked so well.
Jeez, one those Moms that Never stops talking about her kids!
No, you don't kill the janitor. If you're a surgeon who's more concerned with success than murdering innocent people, most likely because you work at an understaffed hospital, then you're a psychotic murderer.
You'd do what you can, but it's not the surgeons fault or responsibility to compensate for 911 dispatchers, EMTs, and hospital staff as an excuse to murder someone that didn't volunteer their organs.
Also, the janitor wouldn't be a match for them all. They would all die painful deaths.
Also, if this crazy nightmare hospital doesn't have the life support systems to keep the patients alive until appropriate donors are found, it's not going to be able to support them post-op or if their bodies reject the organs. In this scenario those patients with failing organs are going to die. Let the janitor live.
The obvious answer is to take organs from half the group and use them to save the other half.
That way you also still have the janitor to help you clean up afterwards.
The Janitor can save all 10 of them, these aren't supposed to be realistic scenarios, just like the surgeon having a 100% success rate. There's no right answer either, these hypotheticals are just designed to make you think about the moral dilemmas and your own ideas of what is ethical.
Kristen: ”Its a hard question, we deal with tough stuff“
Stephen: ”Sure, thats comedy“
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Kristen without Craig is ...okayyyy but...like a bike without tires, pizza without dough a tree without leaves. But this woman needs to be cloned for the sake of humanity!
Pizza wouldn't be a pizza without the base that's dough it would be just ingredients.
She is hilarious with Craig or not, the audience has no reactions, not a reflection of her.
mmm Pepperoni soup
It's sad that Craig died
Who is Craig?
My 4 year old nephew said that he doesn't want to be a palaeontologist anymore because he wants to work at Ikea. I told him he can work at Ikea while he's getting his degree. #lifegoals
3 year old may not have access to a gun NOW, but she will later. Why take any chances? 😆
It's an extremely concerning revelation. Neighbor kid threatened another person like that - about aged 4 at the time. His mom dealt with it and the statement was never repeated. This lady's on air lack of concern or flippancy about it makes her appear to be an airhead.
I think you are projecting something serious onto someone you don't know. She says "we are talking to people, don't worry" indicating that she is taking it seriously and seeking professional help to make sure her child is okay. She can still make a joke of it if she wants. I make jokes about concerning things in my life all the time and it doesn't mean I don't take them seriously, it's just how I process difficult things.
Like I needed a reason to live her more!!! She’s a humanitarian ambassador!!!
This is a friendly and funny take on a philosophical question... however the actual theory is based on the relationship between belief in free will versus belief in fate.
Can't we believe in both? God's hand is in the weather, machinery, seismic and volcanic activity. He guides animals' instincts. He controls the apparently random movements of papers in the wind. And He inspires people with ideas.
But in this setting, people have free will to make choices. That's a big part of what our earthly visit is all about.
Alex Thompson
You've read Thomas Aquinas, I'm assuming.
@@thetrustysidekick3013 ... No. But I've read the Book of Mormon many times.
the difference between the hospital thing and the trolley thing is that in the hospital scenario, the people are already injured, while the janitor is perfectly healthy. but in the trolley situation, everyone is healthy and well
hahaha!! no more tv, movies & internet for that little girl of hers, omg!! 😯
but, "why is earth??" is an *awesome* question! 👍👍
she's either very scientifically, spiritually or metaphysically curious already...or two or all three of those.
and, wow! hadn't heard, "why is there *something* instead of *nothing* ??" in decades, lol!! but guess what: nothing *is* something..because it's a *concept.* all thoughts are things? yes! but the inverse is *also* true: all things are thoughts.. because *think* about it... and as one of my favorite wisdom teachers often expresses.. "what to say now?"
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why is red? why is water? why is blah, blah...we humans try to give purpose to things because that's the way we have developed. Neil D Tyson says, "The universe doesn't owe you anything." and i will add, Deal with it.
@@JohnDoe-nf2ok hi!..& wow!, you can really thought about this, too! awesome sauce & much appreciation for your response.
and yes, the "proof" is/would be in our/my/your hands..indeed, not all 'things' can be quantifiably measured by science..which i do have an appreciation for..(my career training actually very much relies on it)...however science/scientists are only people, like us, of course..and as such, *can* be stubborn..and i *believe* we all see through a personal lens/filter the rabbit hole: we may be seeing everyone, including scientists and their outcomes, 100% via our own filter..but taking that to the deepest mind-places, a whole other conversation i think!).
but perhaps an agnostic scientist is more objective than an atheistic or religious scientist? 🤔 as a true skeptic, in the purest since, isn't a naysayer..and nor are they a religious believer, so much influenced (like the atheist in a way) that outcomes of their studies might only support their personal biases (one reason i sometimes dig in order to learn who/what organization, however many layers or shell companies deep, who sponsored a study).
some researchers, though, seem to look for/notice only that which they 'see' as supporting what they believe they already know..about Life & existence...would an atheist scientist ever be able to prove, for instance, proof of a human or universal soul? would or could they ever accept what might be proof? would a religious one ever be able to prove a negative, the non-existence of anything? like the non-existence of god (however one defines it)?..seems impossible. 😯
taking a long way to get to my point: certain concepts and ideas, so far anyway, might not ever be provable objectively.. "love," for instance (in all its various forms), is something that today i can't imagine handing over to science, to prove..in part, for me because, what seems to not be accepted by determined scientists is that what they have decided is 'the cause' of a sense or feeling of love (hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.).. because these might only be the *symptoms* or the *effects* of a sense of love..chicken or the egg? the dragon or snake that perpetually swallows it's own tail?..yep, a direct experience of some things may turn out to be the only proof there ever is for them..the only thing that makes it real for us. 🙋