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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"

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%
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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 1:06 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 1:04 pm)Thena323 Wrote:
(May 19, 2016 at 12:54 pm)pool the great Wrote: But if you don't shove your one child to death, you're essentially killing your other 5 children. Are you somehow implying that the consequences of your inaction are nonexistent? I'm having trouble following you.
Choosing to do nothing is also choosing to do something,imo.

Never said the consequences would be non-existent. It's clear there'd be consequences all around.

So, in short, you'd essentially be killing 5 of your children and saving one as opposed to saving all the 5 children and killing one. And you're okay with that?
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by ErGingerbreadMandude - May 19, 2016 at 1:06 pm

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