(January 24, 2018 at 6:36 pm)SaStrike Wrote: When I used the word 'responsibility', I meant an immediate, personal decision to operate or not, and therefore responsible for what outcome happens. There is no escape from this responsibility because either way, you were the indirect cause of someone's death.
In the trolley scenario, there are no circumstance that make it your responsibility to decide something because inaction will not make you an indirect cause of someone's death. If you feel you have a responsibility to find a solution, then those feelings are a result of reasoning from a very specific moral system, not of the circumstances.
It's nice to hear someone speak up for that one guy on the track instead of going on about how the five people matter more.
