off topic but i never fuken understood this problem. Like literally. your action can save 4 people, what’s the reasoning behind not pulling the lever being a morally valid choice as much as pulling it?
Yeah at its core this is the discussion it’s intended to bring about. How action or inaction translates to culpability based on available information. It maps really well onto so many social issues.
how? do nothing and your inaction has killed more people. Pulling the lever effectively means saving three people, i can’t see an angle from where that is a controversial position to hold
off topic but i never fuken understood this problem. Like literally. your action can save 4 people, what’s the reasoning behind not pulling the lever being a morally valid choice as much as pulling it?
I think the moral “dilemma” is supposed to be
It’s stupid, but I think that’s the idea
Yeah at its core this is the discussion it’s intended to bring about. How action or inaction translates to culpability based on available information. It maps really well onto so many social issues.
how? do nothing and your inaction has killed more people. Pulling the lever effectively means saving three people, i can’t see an angle from where that is a controversial position to hold