The original idea of the trolley problem was that in its "classic" form everyone says yes but as you reformulate it to feel more and more extreme people start to balk, even though from a naive utilitarian standpoint it's the same thing
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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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They react very differently if the one person was tied to the tracks same as the five than if you say that you're gonna derail the trolley and kill some random person in the yard of their house with no awareness of what's going on Even though this is indefensible
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Presumably the one guy being tied to the tracks wasn't there consensually but once he's in the category of "people whose lives are threatened by trolleys" you're mentally more okay with him dying "Dragging a bystander into this" feels worse It's a clear sloppy heuristic we have
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