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 …
laws that aren't vetted by this kind of reasoning, ideally done by very conscientious and smart people, tend to harsh, overbroad and kafkaesque
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for some reason all the examples that spring to mind come from california
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for example, in the dissent in one supreme court of canada case, a justice rejected a definition of accessory to trafficking accepted by the majority
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