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minus-squareAllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·26 days agoyes, if you change the problem, you change the way we respond. that’s why there’s so many trolley problems spin offs in the first place
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·26 days agobut the end result is the same. you’re always left with five.
minus-squareRampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·26 days agoBut…it’s not a math dilemma, it’s a moral one. Changing it to hot philanthropic strippers changes the morality.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·26 days agothe morality doesn’t exist in the first place because we don’t live in a society that would allow someone to tie up six people on two tracks. we do live in a world with real problems. Complex problems. Problems that lose solvable value when they are reduced to a philosophical joke. so please tell me more about how we can solve the worlds problems by flipping switches on train tracks.
minus-squaremariusafa@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoThe artist just immortalized in a strip that does not understand the trolley problem.
minus-squareDragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·26 days agoIt understands it just fine. Agency is not a factor in the decision. The choice between action and inaction doesn’t matter. People think it matters because people are driven by shortsighted emotions.
yes, if you change the problem, you change the way we respond. that’s why there’s so many trolley problems spin offs in the first place
but the end result is the same.
you’re always left with five.
But…it’s not a math dilemma, it’s a moral one. Changing it to hot philanthropic strippers changes the morality.
the morality doesn’t exist in the first place because we don’t live in a society that would allow someone to tie up six people on two tracks.
we do live in a world with real problems. Complex problems. Problems that lose solvable value when they are reduced to a philosophical joke.
so please tell me more about how we can solve the worlds problems by flipping switches on train tracks.
The artist just immortalized in a strip that does not understand the trolley problem.
It understands it just fine. Agency is not a factor in the decision. The choice between action and inaction doesn’t matter. People think it matters because people are driven by shortsighted emotions.