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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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I will choose to do nothing.
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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
May 19, 2016 at 11:49 am
If I have the strength to push a... ummm... bass-and-not-treble person who can stop a fuckin trolley by just lying on the tracks in front of it, I might as well just go on the tracks and stop it myself with my herculean strength.
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by Aoi Magi - May 19, 2016 at 11:49 am

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