(Option 2a: I use the space available to be as income-producing capital in some other sense that doesn't involve residential tenants I turn the extra bedrooms into an escape room, or a recording studio, or a hydroponic farm or whatever)
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People are way more willing to kill the one person if they're "already on the tracks" than if "they were never part of this situation and just got dragged into it", even though that makes no sense and is impossible to defend if you flat out say it like that
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Wondering if this is akin to the reasoning that we use to throw disadvantaged people under the bus. (Or the trolley.) "Yeah it's sad my neighbor has PTSD but he's already screwed. By setting off these fireworks at least ONE of us will be happy."
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Do you have a good link for this? I keep telling people that the standard trolley problem is badly formulated, because it embeds cultural knowledge about trolleys that’s unevenly distributed across populations, and then people think I’ve gone off the deep end.
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