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haycoat asked:
How would you solve the trolley problem?
I can’t really put it into words.
Some background: for a long time as a kid I hated the trolley problem but also wanted very badly to be a sort of person who could say “but how would I feel if I had to decide that”? It was this desire to have some sense of what “would I do in the situation” that would explain why it felt so bad to be put in that situation.
If that makes any sense? It’s a thing I have to do often in my life and it’s a very strange feeling. I don’t know if it’s the sort of thing one could have a scientific explanation for, or whether it’s just something that comes from some fundamental and perhaps unique features of the human brain, but the sense of uncertainty and futility, and a sense of this being some huge violation of “the way things should be,”… and my inability to feel fully how I would feel if I had to decide that, all these contribute a great deal to a sense of horror.
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