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Happy #trolleyday!
Today's the birthday of Philippa Foot, the mother of one of the best known ethical dilemmas of our time: the 'trolley problem'.
(Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)
Happy #trolleyday!
Today's the birthday of Philippa Foot, the mother of one of the best known ethical dilemmas of our time: the 'trolley problem'.
(Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)
The original trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
A variation of the trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you push a fat man from an overpass, he will die while stopping and saving the 5 on the trolley track.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you push a fat man from an overpass, he will die while stopping and saving the 5 on the trolley track.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
The dilemmas related to autonomous cars resemble moral choices from the trolley problem.
Should the brakeless autonomous car throw itself in the ravine, or should it kill Jeremy Bentham?
#trolleyday
Should the brakeless autonomous car throw itself in the ravine, or should it kill Jeremy Bentham?
#trolleyday
A variation of the trolley problem:
5 people die if they don't receive a different vital organ.
1 healthy person enters with all 5 vital organs functioning.
Is it better to save the 5 by killing the 1?
#trolleyday
5 people die if they don't receive a different vital organ.
1 healthy person enters with all 5 vital organs functioning.
Is it better to save the 5 by killing the 1?
#trolleyday
Poll original trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
Poll variation of the trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you push a fat man from an overpass, he will die while stopping and saving the 5 on the trolley track.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you push a fat man from an overpass, he will die while stopping and saving the 5 on the trolley track.
What will you do?
#trolleyday
A trolley nears.
No one is in danger.
You are an ethics teacher.
Should you put people on the trolley tracks in order to keep your job?
No one is in danger.
You are an ethics teacher.
Should you put people on the trolley tracks in order to keep your job?
