25 I was recently reading about the Trolley Problem A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are five people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you could flip a switch, which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track.
The Trolley Problem: Is it better to kill 1 person or let 5 die?
But in the trolley problem, for example, Judaism prohibits saving five people by killing one person. In the violinist case, once the status quo would allow him to live, disconnecting him would be an affirmative act of murder, and you may not disconnect him absent him posing a threat to your life.
The New Yorker: I Never Thought the Trolley Problem Would Happen to Me
Oh, shoot. The trolley problem is happening to me. The probability of dying in a plane crash is about one in thirteen million. The probability of being attacked by a shark is one in four million.
The Daily Dot: The ‘first good AI joke’ joke is also a brilliant ethical solution to the trolley problem
The ‘first good AI joke’ joke is also a brilliant ethical solution to the trolley problem
New research shows how easily our imagined choices collapse under the weight of real consequences. Here’s why overthinking them never helps. For decades, the “trolley problem” has encouraged us to ...
Have you ever heard of the trolley problem? It’s a thought experiment that puts the subject at the scene of an impending disaster. A runaway trolley careens toward five people ruthlessly tied to the ...