#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
May 18, 2016 at 1:24 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2016 at 1:29 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
This is the classic ' The Trolley Problem ':
Although the classic version is interesting,there are other variations that are as much as or more interesting than the classic problem.
An interesting and much more fun variation of the classic problem is:
1) Push the fat man onto the tracks.
2) Choose to do nothing.
It's going to interesting how heathens with no objective morality would handle this problem,have at it!
Quote:Imagine that you’re at the controls of a railway switch and there’s an out-of-control trolley coming. The tracks branch into two, one track that leads to a group of five people, and the other to one person. If you do nothing, the trolley will smash into the five people. But if you flip the switch, it’ll change tracks and strike the lone person. What do you do?It's a rather interesting thought experiment that let's us explore the complexity of our morality system. This was first introduced by a Moral philosopher called Philippa Foot.
Although the classic version is interesting,there are other variations that are as much as or more interesting than the classic problem.
An interesting and much more fun variation of the classic problem is:
Quote:A second variation of the problem involves a “fat man” and no second track — a man so large that, if you were to push him onto the tracks, his body would prevent the trolley from smashing into the group of five. So what do you do? Nothing? Or push him onto the tracks?What would you do?
1) Push the fat man onto the tracks.
2) Choose to do nothing.
It's going to interesting how heathens with no objective morality would handle this problem,have at it!
