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Poll: What will you choose to do?
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I will choose to push the fat man onto the tracks.
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I will choose to do nothing.
71.43%
5 71.43%
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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
LOL, leave it to EP to invite forum members to open up about their feelings and ideas on a moral thought experiment, and then promptly tell everyone who offers an opinion which differs from the one HE thinks is "correct" that they are undeniably wrong and morally bankrupt. I thought this was a "what would you do, and why?" poll, not a "you're wrong and a bad person if would do differently then I would." poll.

This is exactly how one spoils his own thread...
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by LadyForCamus - May 18, 2016 at 7:29 pm

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