I had a seminar my senior winter of college that was basically all trolley problems
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oh I find them all to be unsettling, and best regarded as short form horror fiction.
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especially when it's like 3 children vs a puppy vs a senator and there's uncertainty that the switch will work
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hah not intended as such by me
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(I personally feel there's been a resurgence of interest in trolley problem debates due to self driving cars)
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@FioraAeterna Where are these COMING from?!pic.twitter.com/4cZf1t7rnc
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@gnat A more intriguing trolley problem: "What if self-driving cars only kill 500K people a year?"http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@overdesigned no, the crew capable of dissembling the entire trolley but who choose to instead keep it rolling didThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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My favorite one of these has to be the existential comics version of it: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/106
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you know, the one that tries to jam every moral ethics theory into this trolley dilemma!
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Killing is a red herring here
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My cells are continuously renewed, yet still I remain.
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The issue is the identity of the whole or the concept
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@pmarca If you have a crew to pull off the feat of dismantling the trolley, why not use some to untie the poor man?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@puellavulnerata We play this game in UK. "if you pull the lever, article 50 is triggered instantly... etc"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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