Can anybody think of an event from history - not the Mignonette case! - that mirrors the structure of the standard trolley problem?
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@PhilosophyExp Hiroshima?
@SubManUSN ...most people that would be central to the justification - i.e., not justified in absene of war even if same basic calculus).
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@PhilosophyExp Fair enough. -
@SubManUSN Good suggestion, though. I might reference it a bit later in the chapter! :) -
@SubManUSN That one doesn't work so well, because Whitman wasn't merely a bystander (as in trolley case). Amazing story, though! -
@PhilosophyExp Hmmm, I shall continue to cogitate upon this dilemma.
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