Trolley problems appeal to people who like solving puzzles.
Ethics is not sudoku. That way of thinking reliably leads to extreme moral misjudgment.https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1235990195297816577 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
If I suddenly found myself on a trolley platform with perfect knowledge of trolleys and a weird choice to make, my attention would be on trying to understand the context of how the fuck I got there, not on the ethics of the weird choice.
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @Meaningness
A friend once read out a story about a weird double-bind (you're a nurse; terminally-ill kid says "I'm not gonna get better, am I?", & you can be fired if you level w her) that ended with "what do you do?" Me: "my response-ability is to not end up in that situation."
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I’m reminded of a passage in one of Castaneda’s books in which he poses some hypothetical involving someone pointing a gun at Don Juan, who replies “I wouldn’t get myself into that situation.” It stuck with me when I read it at age ≈16. Don Juan ≈ Harold Garfinkel of course…
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