(May 19, 2016 at 6:33 am)Rhythm Wrote: You and I might be willing to do some envelope math with human lives based upon how it gives us the feels, but I'm not at all certain that the outcomes of that willingness are desirable played out in the aggregate, or that we have room to condemn those who either wouldn't, or could't. Lets not forget that, in the end..particularly in this thought experiment, we would be condemning someone for refusing or being unable to commit a murder.
I'd say if you are at the controls of the train, you are already going to be a murderer. The question is only how many you will murder. I don't see any important difference between the choice to flip a track or the choice not to-- they are both decisions, and a decision is an active process already.
