...it's the same result. One person dies to save five. The instinctive answer is different based on how "personal" it feels. It really seems to me to be a critique of a simplistic kind of pure utilitarianism. Using it for more misses the point.
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One of the interesting things about empirical studies of the trolley problem is people instinctively care a lot about who's "already involved" in any moral situation
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Yeah - and I do too, but it's not something that's easy to really explain. Still, I'm not happy dismissing it.
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What about the people who zoned the area around the tracks for housing / allowed the tracks to be built (and not rated for the speed of a train diverted from the nearby higher-speed tracks) through that neighborhood?
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Sure, and the responsibility of the people who allowed the train to go out of control in the first place
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