10 pts to whoever can explain to me a nontrivial non-hypothetical application of the trolley problem.
Say, could you recommend any critiques of the hypothetical scenario itself as a means of ethical understanding & pedagogy?
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I ask because a) in field of natsec and war, hypotheticals engender an abstract ethics drained of politics and history and
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b) I surely can't be the first to doubt the value of hypotheticals be they trolleys or ticking bombs. Any sugg's welcome!
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I'd look in the literature on thought experiments and counterfactuals, but it's not an area I know well.
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