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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"

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I will choose to push the fat man onto the tracks.
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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
May 18, 2016 at 1:57 pm (This post was last modified: May 18, 2016 at 1:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think it says anything negative about your morality.  Consider the effect of having a species made up, entirely, of gung ho switch-throwers.  They're going to misread the situation enough times to counteract whatever good they might have intended.  Some may die because of one gropups inactivity, sure..but will it be larger than the number of people offed by dumbasses who think they have a clue?  Seems to me that the latter account for more deaths than the former.  

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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by The Grand Nudger - May 18, 2016 at 1:57 pm

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