RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
May 18, 2016 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2016 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 18, 2016 at 1:24 pm)pool the great Wrote: 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?-Flip the switch and cream the poor bastard who felt like being an individual that particular day.
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?-I'd tell him to kiss his giant ass goodbye..though, I'd wonder how I could push a guy so massive that a trolley couldn't.......
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