minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink26•1 month agoyes, if you change the problem, you change the way we respond. that’s why there’s so many trolley problems spin offs in the first place
minus-square@GreenKnight23link13•1 month agobut the end result is the same. you’re always left with five.
minus-square@RampantParanoia2365link1•1 month agoBut…it’s not a math dilemma, it’s a moral one. Changing it to hot philanthropic strippers changes the morality.
minus-square@GreenKnight23link0•1 month agothe morality doesn’t exist in the first place because we don’t live in a society that would allow someone to tie up six people on two tracks. we do live in a world with real problems. Complex problems. Problems that lose solvable value when they are reduced to a philosophical joke. so please tell me more about how we can solve the worlds problems by flipping switches on train tracks.
yes, if you change the problem, you change the way we respond. that’s why there’s so many trolley problems spin offs in the first place
but the end result is the same.
you’re always left with five.
But…it’s not a math dilemma, it’s a moral one. Changing it to hot philanthropic strippers changes the morality.
the morality doesn’t exist in the first place because we don’t live in a society that would allow someone to tie up six people on two tracks.
we do live in a world with real problems. Complex problems. Problems that lose solvable value when they are reduced to a philosophical joke.
so please tell me more about how we can solve the worlds problems by flipping switches on train tracks.