I’m the type of person who doesn’t see the world as a textbook problem, but rather a place full of real people with rights.
Me standing there next to the trolleys, I don’t know what I’d do. I’ve been through enough scary shit to know that about myself: that I don’t know what I’d do in a situation where people are going to die in front of me. I know it’s probably not what I’d say I’d do based on some kind of moral math I figure out in a breakout discussion group on a breezy spring afternoon in college.
Why do I say “full of people with rights”? Because when you flip that switch in the trolley problem, you’re killing someone. That’s a violation of their rights and therefore it is wrong as a policy even if the math seems to work out.
Those are real people, who are now really jobless. It’s a real problem, and it was actually, truly caused by this new policy. Being willing to just dismiss that because you think the numbers work out makes someone at least a tiny bit monster.
Yes? What kind of question is that.
Are you sort of person who picks the group in the Trolley problem?
I’m the type of person who doesn’t see the world as a textbook problem, but rather a place full of real people with rights.
Me standing there next to the trolleys, I don’t know what I’d do. I’ve been through enough scary shit to know that about myself: that I don’t know what I’d do in a situation where people are going to die in front of me. I know it’s probably not what I’d say I’d do based on some kind of moral math I figure out in a breakout discussion group on a breezy spring afternoon in college.
Why do I say “full of people with rights”? Because when you flip that switch in the trolley problem, you’re killing someone. That’s a violation of their rights and therefore it is wrong as a policy even if the math seems to work out.
Those are real people, who are now really jobless. It’s a real problem, and it was actually, truly caused by this new policy. Being willing to just dismiss that because you think the numbers work out makes someone at least a tiny bit monster.