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 …
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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why? because of a hypothetical innocent person she posited it would capture - a man whose girlfriend decided she was gonna buy drugs in a bad neighbourhood late at night, so he drives her
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now think of whatever bad and overbroad laws you want and ax urself - should maybe more thought experiments have been run on these?
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