Exactly. It's a critique/discussion of pure naive utilitarianism, not a real debate on who to kill to save who?
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Yes, exactly. That's my point - the trolley problem is interesting in that it illuminates the gap between what we THINK we believe and what we really DO believe.
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I really feel like this is why people have perverse kneejerk moral reactions, ones based on writing certain people off as already destined to suffer The disabled Uber passenger should accept discrimination because they're already used to it
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It's probably fairly similar conceptually to himpathy, actually.
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It lets you offload the guilt to the person who tied them to the tracks, probably more than you actually deserve to be able to offload. Like "well all that damage Superman did to the city is really Zod's fault"
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I mean, to a degree it's not *wrong*
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