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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 8:31 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 8:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote: The OP balances this-- you can at least see that you aren't choosing between a cute little girl and a bunch of old people.  But the experiment you're talking about now doesn't balance values: I can SEE the person I'm killing, and this person now has a value, whereas the others are just numbers to me still.  

Then suppose that, for the sake of this thought experiment, you can't see the person you're killing. Or, that you can see both the person you're killing and the people you're saving.
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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by Gemini - May 19, 2016 at 8:31 pm

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