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Happy #trolleyday!
Today& #39;s the birthday of Philippa Foot, the mother of one of the best known ethical dilemmas of our time: the & #39;trolley problem& #39;.
(Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trol...
Happy #trolleyday!
Today& #39;s the birthday of Philippa Foot, the mother of one of the best known ethical dilemmas of our time: the & #39;trolley problem& #39;.
(Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trol...
The original trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don& #39;t act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What will you do?
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A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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?
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Should the brakeless autonomous car throw itself in the ravine, or should it kill Jeremy Bentham?
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A variation of the trolley problem:
5 people die if they don& #39;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?
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5 people die if they don& #39;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?
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Poll original trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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