10 pts to whoever can explain to me a nontrivial non-hypothetical application of the trolley problem.
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Debates re: drone attacks, bombings on human-rights grounds kinda take this form, eg
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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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Good q. There must be. Closer to my work, there's a society dedicated to opposing hypotheticals http://www.philosophy-science-practice.org/en/mission-statement/ …
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I just came across this critique of trolleyology from legal academia: http://www.jethrolieberman.com/fight_the_hypo__fake_arguments__trolleyology__and_the_limits_of_hypotheticals_127085.htm …
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