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Title text: There's another philosophical problem solved. This is easy.

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What's your solution to the trolley problem? Do you kill five people or kill 1.

Easy.

Kill the lower number of

People.

But suppose this: You're a doctor and you can kill 1 person to save 5.

Aha! They have the same structure. Hypocrisy!

It's not hypocrisy, it's ecology it's real life as an evolved ape.

Obviously you don't.

In the first scenario, the trolley driver is just in an unlikely and bad situation. They may make a better or worse choice, but they're probably not going to end up in a runaway trolley ever again.

In the second scenario, you got a surgeon who thinks they can run around killing people all day as long the murder meets some utilitarian standard. In that case, you basically can't have any surgeons because everyone is terrified of going anywhere near them.

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Pretty soon society stops working because anyone can be executed the moment some morality equation turns up

Okay, but it's meant to be an abstraction is one thing better than the other?

With a plus sign.

Just an abstraction? So in this story, there are seven beings summoned into existence just to see how they solve a moral dilemma? If you're in that universe, the obvious move is to kill as many people as possible to thwart the evil creator deity.

This is why philosophers and scientists don't get along

To solve a trolley problem, you must first invent the universe/

it

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The weird thing is they made that path themselves years ago

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