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JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 week agoI think a billion id take because you can save thousands and thousands of people
I could live with that choice. Maybe in the end I’d feel so guilty that I wouldn’t even use the money for myself at all.
Which is an interesting debate as well. How does your answer change if you can’t use that money for you or known people at all, and only “for good”. Do you feel less guilty?
As another commenter said it’s just a different version of the trolley problem
Avicenna@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yea I thought about that but you can not trade one person’s life for a thousand others unless that person willingly participates.
By logic this should also extend to me and my loved ones but ofcourse when it is someone closer to you whose life may be saved, you can probably no longer act objectively.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think that’s entirely true
Everyday society chooses to save a persons life and not another’s
Not explicitly but not so indirectly either
Avicenna@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yea but I think there is a difference between the two, it is a more direct consequence of your decision only, not society on a whole. I would imagine shared guilt of indirect results is much lighter on the psychology than a direct and visible consequence of what comes out of one’s mouth. There is ofcourse alot of grey region scenarios in between (like you won’t know who dies, or death will be of natural causes but immediate etc).