Trolley problems are exceedingly uncommon in the wild. If someone is going out of their way to use them to justify something, and everyone on the track you pull the lever to hit happens to be a minority, that person is just being a bigot & using "pragmatism" or whatever as cover
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Oh, wow. And I think the real-life applications matter, and really aren't entirely rare; it's not like we don't face tradeoffs in policy or personal decisionmaking. It's still, though, about what's negotiable and what isn't.
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Also, perhaps importantly, nobody actually feels good about it in the end. The one who makes the trolley problem argument is obviously the one who survived or the one who had to throw the switch, not the ones sacrificed. They are unlikely to respond to their sacrifice well.
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In 2003 there was a runaway freight train in LA that was heading toward a station where passenger trains stopped To reduce the risk of loss of life, since they couldn't stop the train they diverted it into a sparsely populated low income neighborhood (the town of Commerce)
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They knew that the area was inhabited and that the train would likely derail and go into people's houses but decided this was a better option than a collision on the tracks Two people's houses were destroyed and thirteen people went to the hospital
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