Trolley problems appeal to people who like solving puzzles.
Ethics is not sudoku. That way of thinking reliably leads to extreme moral misjudgment.https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1235990195297816577 …
My understanding of our disagreement so far is it boils down to: "ethical thought experiments are dumb and contrived, and likely harmful" vs. "ethical thought experiments are useful and interesting, and only dumb and contrived if overapplied."
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I'm not sure it's even useful Here's a fun test: prove it
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when judges and legislators make law they think of hypotheticals and counterfactuals. in criminal law, one of these would be 'what is the most morally innocent person this law could capture'
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