SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf one innocent person is tortured so that everyone else can live and the world doesn't end, is that simultaneously unfair but also morally preferable over complete destruction of everything?message-squaremessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down110
arrow-up186arrow-down1message-squareIf one innocent person is tortured so that everyone else can live and the world doesn't end, is that simultaneously unfair but also morally preferable over complete destruction of everything?SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squareRyumast3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up59arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoWelcome to the trolley problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI always always hated that problem. It is so contrived. Have you seen trolleys? They are freaken slow and full of safeties. Also the workers would have locked out the line.
Welcome to the trolley problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
I always always hated that problem. It is so contrived. Have you seen trolleys? They are freaken slow and full of safeties. Also the workers would have locked out the line.