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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"

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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 7:27 pm
(May 18, 2016 at 1:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Seems to me that the latter account for more deaths than the former.  

You think so?  I know that in a lot of emergencies, dozens of people will stand around with their thumbs up their asses assuming that if nobody else is doing anything, they probably don't need to either.  Meanwhile, women are getting raped, babies are getting burned up in fires, stabbed people are bleeding to death on the street.
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by bennyboy - May 18, 2016 at 7:27 pm

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