How do you decide moral dilemmas?
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moral remainder = you do the right thing and suffer the consequences (guilt, shame, etc). e.g. one resolution to the trolley problem is that you do the one that kills fewer people and then carry guilt around for the rest of your life. Ideally don't do this too often.
Hard work and skill: Most moral dilemmas are just practical problems that you've not thought about hard enough, and the dilemma is a false binary choice between two options where the correct solution is to talk more and figure out something better.
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Like in the trolley problem you should definitely attempt to communicate with both the trolley driver and an ambulance before anything else has happened - seems much more useful than pulling a lever or not!!
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Yeah, the trolley problem is oversimplified and contorted - and yet can be useful. For example take a self-driving car. Should the car risk the passengers to save a group of pedestarians? Do changes in age of passengers & pedestarians affect the decision? (e.g. save children?)
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