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Trolley Madness

UT! YOU CAN ALSO PUSH A FAT MAN ONTO THE TRACK, STOPPING THE TROLLEY COMPLETELY IMACINE YOU ARE ON A RUNAWAY TROLLEY, YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU FIVE PEOPLE TIED TO THE TRACKS. YOU CAN'T STOP THE TROLLEY, BUT YOU CAN DIVERT IT ONTO ANOTHER TRACK WITH ONLY ONE PERSON. EITHER WAY LET ME FINISH! THE ONE MAN OWNS THE TROLLEY COMPANY, AND HAS BEEN EXPLOITING HIS ORKERS FOR YEARS. THE FIVE MEN HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR HIM UNDER SLAVE LIKE CONDITIONS. ELL TiloLLEY ETHICS 103 FOOT THE FAT MAN IS PLANNING ON LEADING A SOCIALIST REBELLION. IT S CERTAIN TO BE BLOODY, BUT WILL RESULT IN A MORE JUST SOCIETY IN THE END ALS0, THE FAT MAN IS REALLY ONLY A COMPLEX MACHINE, DESIGNED TO APPEAR AS THOUGH IT UNDERSTANDS OUR LANGUAGE, BUT REALLY CAN ONLY MANIPULATE SYNTAX T PROBABLY DOESN'T EXPERIENCE ANYTHING AT ALL! UH. THE TROLLEY COMPANY OWNER IS A COOD MAN AT HEART, AND IS ONLY DRIVING THE WORKERS S0 HARD BECAUSE AN EVIL DEMON IS DECEIVING HIM INTO BELIEVING THAT IT IS THE BEST THING TO DO. AND ALL FIVE OF THE WORKERS ARE WICKED MEN AT HEART AND HAVE ONLY NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO S0. I WOULD KILL FOR MONEY IF I HAD THE CHANCE TOTALLY, ME TOO M TEACHING THEM GOOD WORK ETHIC WISH I HAD A KITTEN TO KILL DUE TO THE PO0R WORKING CONDITIONS, ALL FIVE OF THE MEN ARE SICK, AND WILL DIE WITHIN THE MONTH IF THEY DON'T GET ORGAN TRANSPLANTS. THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE THEM IS TO KILL THE TROLLEY OWNER'S ON AN INNOCENT, WHO IS PLAYING ON A THIRD TRACK. HOWEVER, DUE TO A GENETIC MUTATION, THE SON HAS A CAPACITY FOR HAPPINESS THAT FAR EXCEEDS ALL FIVE WORKERS COMBINED 么 ALSO, IF YOU KILL HIM, HIS FATHER WILL ALWAYS BLAME THE WORKERS, AND WILL TREAT THEM EVEN WORSE PLUS, ON THE TROLLEY THERE IS A BOMB, WHICH YOU CAN DETONATE·KILLING THE MAN, HIS SON, THE WORKERS, AND THE REVOLUTIONARY BoMB BUT HE WILL ALSO CHANNEL HIS SORROW INTO ART AND BECOME A MASTER VIOLINIST, GIVING IMMENSE JOY TO THOSE WHO LISTEN TO HIS MUSI UH, YEAH, ILL DO THAT ONE HOWEVER, IT WILL ALSO DESTROY THE CONCEPT OF THE TROLLEY, 50 THEIR DEATHS WILL BE COUNTERBALANCED BY MILLIONS OF STUDENTS NO LONGER HAVING TO SUFFER THROUCH ANSWERING THESE TYPES OF QUESTIONS. OKAY, BUT WHAT IF YOU WERE IN A VEIL OF IGNORANCE, AND DIDN'T KNOW AHEAD OF TIME WHETHER YOU'D BE A STUDENT, OR ON THE TRACK? LL TAKE MY CHANCES
UT! YOU CAN ALSO PUSH A FAT MAN ONTO THE TRACK, STOPPING THE TROLLEY COMPLETELY IMACINE YOU ARE ON A RUNAWAY TROLLEY, YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU FIVE PEOPLE TIED TO THE TRACKS. YOU CAN'T STOP THE TROLLEY, BUT YOU CAN DIVERT IT ONTO ANOTHER TRACK WITH ONLY ONE PERSON. EITHER WAY LET ME FINISH! THE ONE MAN OWNS THE TROLLEY COMPANY, AND HAS BEEN EXPLOITING HIS ORKERS FOR YEARS. THE FIVE MEN HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR HIM UNDER SLAVE LIKE CONDITIONS. ELL TiloLLEY ETHICS 103 FOOT THE FAT MAN IS PLANNING ON LEADING A SOCIALIST REBELLION. IT S CERTAIN TO BE BLOODY, BUT WILL RESULT IN A MORE JUST SOCIETY IN THE END ALS0, THE FAT MAN IS REALLY ONLY A COMPLEX MACHINE, DESIGNED TO APPEAR AS THOUGH IT UNDERSTANDS OUR LANGUAGE, BUT REALLY CAN ONLY MANIPULATE SYNTAX T PROBABLY DOESN'T EXPERIENCE ANYTHING AT ALL! UH. THE TROLLEY COMPANY OWNER IS A COOD MAN AT HEART, AND IS ONLY DRIVING THE WORKERS S0 HARD BECAUSE AN EVIL DEMON IS DECEIVING HIM INTO BELIEVING THAT IT IS THE BEST THING TO DO. AND ALL FIVE OF THE WORKERS ARE WICKED MEN AT HEART AND HAVE ONLY NEVER COMMITTED A CRIME BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO S0. I WOULD KILL FOR MONEY IF I HAD THE CHANCE TOTALLY, ME TOO M TEACHING THEM GOOD WORK ETHIC WISH I HAD A KITTEN TO KILL DUE TO THE PO0R WORKING CONDITIONS, ALL FIVE OF THE MEN ARE SICK, AND WILL DIE WITHIN THE MONTH IF THEY DON'T GET ORGAN TRANSPLANTS. THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE THEM IS TO KILL THE TROLLEY OWNER'S ON AN INNOCENT, WHO IS PLAYING ON A THIRD TRACK. HOWEVER, DUE TO A GENETIC MUTATION, THE SON HAS A CAPACITY FOR HAPPINESS THAT FAR EXCEEDS ALL FIVE WORKERS COMBINED 么 ALSO, IF YOU KILL HIM, HIS FATHER WILL ALWAYS BLAME THE WORKERS, AND WILL TREAT THEM EVEN WORSE PLUS, ON THE TROLLEY THERE IS A BOMB, WHICH YOU CAN DETONATE·KILLING THE MAN, HIS SON, THE WORKERS, AND THE REVOLUTIONARY BoMB BUT HE WILL ALSO CHANNEL HIS SORROW INTO ART AND BECOME A MASTER VIOLINIST, GIVING IMMENSE JOY TO THOSE WHO LISTEN TO HIS MUSI UH, YEAH, ILL DO THAT ONE HOWEVER, IT WILL ALSO DESTROY THE CONCEPT OF THE TROLLEY, 50 THEIR DEATHS WILL BE COUNTERBALANCED BY MILLIONS OF STUDENTS NO LONGER HAVING TO SUFFER THROUCH ANSWERING THESE TYPES OF QUESTIONS. OKAY, BUT WHAT IF YOU WERE IN A VEIL OF IGNORANCE, AND DIDN'T KNOW AHEAD OF TIME WHETHER YOU'D BE A STUDENT, OR ON THE TRACK? LL TAKE MY CHANCES

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TROUBLE WITH THE TROLLEY, EH?


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Spiderman's Trolley Problem


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XKCD

EVER HEARDOFFE TROLLEY PROBLEM? || ATROLEXIS BRRELING | | | TO ARDSAVE-HELPLESS | CANIREACH THE LEVER GUESST FORGOTUHO WITHOUT GETTING UP? | WAS TALKING TO. NO LHAT PEOPLE ON THETRACKS WAIT IM NOT G IT YOU CAN PULL A LEVER FOR A DOLLAR, ILL INTHIS SCENARIOPROMISE TO PULL To DIRECT IT ONTO ANOTHE RACKBHOu BUSY PMLEVER IF ONE OF THE FIVE PEOPLE 15 YbU.
EVER HEARDOFFE TROLLEY PROBLEM? || ATROLEXIS BRRELING | | | TO ARDSAVE-HELPLESS | CANIREACH THE LEVER GUESST FORGOTUHO WITHOUT GETTING UP? | WAS TALKING TO. NO LHAT PEOPLE ON THETRACKS WAIT IM NOT G IT YOU CAN PULL A LEVER FOR A DOLLAR, ILL INTHIS SCENARIOPROMISE TO PULL To DIRECT IT ONTO ANOTHE RACKBHOu BUSY PMLEVER IF ONE OF THE FIVE PEOPLE 15 YbU.

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/fit/'s rules

Sorry, it's push day not pull day Nothing I can do. t. /fit/ oo0
Sorry, it's push day not pull day Nothing I can do. t. /fit/ oo0

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He actually did it!

Corey 9 hours ago So I told Dean to not pull the lever . he actually did it the absolute madman hahahahahahaha!
Corey 9 hours ago So I told Dean to not pull the lever . he actually did it the absolute madman hahahahahahaha!

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Paradox of the Trolley and the Line

You're gonna pull the lever once the train crosses the line. But before reaching the line the train must get halfway there. Before getting halfway there it must travel 1/4 of the distance. Before travelling 1/4 of the distance it must travel 1/8 of the distance. tl,dr the train never moves
You're gonna pull the lever once the train crosses the line. But before reaching the line the train must get halfway there. Before getting halfway there it must travel 1/4 of the distance. Before travelling 1/4 of the distance it must travel 1/8 of the distance. tl,dr the train never moves

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The Kryptonite trolley

TELL ME.. DO YOU BLEED? 公007 000
TELL ME.. DO YOU BLEED? 公007 000

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Quantum Trolley

4000 The Quantum Trolley Problem If you do not pull the lever, the train will stay on track C If you pull the lever, the train will be in either track A or track B. Until you observe the train, you will not know the effect of pulling the lever and thus it is said to be in superposition
4000 The Quantum Trolley Problem If you do not pull the lever, the train will stay on track C If you pull the lever, the train will be in either track A or track B. Until you observe the train, you will not know the effect of pulling the lever and thus it is said to be in superposition

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Social Justice Trolley

A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a pridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. However, the five people on the tracks are the moderators of a popular fat acceptance blog who, if saved, will proceed to spread the news t you are a body-shaming bigot and that 'thin privilege is never being pushed in front of a trolley for the greater good'. roceed?
A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a pridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. However, the five people on the tracks are the moderators of a popular fat acceptance blog who, if saved, will proceed to spread the news t you are a body-shaming bigot and that 'thin privilege is never being pushed in front of a trolley for the greater good'. roceed?

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Brain in a vat

Consider the following case On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones, who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphans' bus will be crossing later that night) One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become G.E.M. Anscombe, while a third would invent the pop-top can. If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, "Leftie" and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, "Leftie" will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men: he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of "Leftie's" act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example. If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available, however the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor Assume that the brain's choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains- in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived QUESTION: What should the brain do?
Consider the following case On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones, who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphans' bus will be crossing later that night) One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become G.E.M. Anscombe, while a third would invent the pop-top can. If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, "Leftie" and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, "Leftie" will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men: he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of "Leftie's" act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example. If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available, however the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor Assume that the brain's choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains- in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived QUESTION: What should the brain do?

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We always have a choice


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