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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 10:13 pm
Cabin in the Woods is just a giant reimagining of this thought experiment. Lol. Would you let demons brutally murder 5 teens to keep the world safe? Would you push one into the room with the demon if it wasn't working?

And Spock is logical and correct, and Kirk is an emotional idiot. Well, except they voluntarily risked their lives to save one life, so that changes the dynamic.

Hmm. Trying to think of any other pop culture occurrences of this killing few to save many theme.
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by Aroura - May 18, 2016 at 10:13 pm

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