Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma
aviationeast@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Questions: why doesn’t the person at the switch run and get the person off the tracks? And the people on the trolley hop off or try to the sslow the trolley?
I think this exposes the sadism of philosophy the past few hundred years.
Often, it’s been some rich idle folks making up murderous fantasies in their heads while looking down at my ancestors . “Oh, you don’t know page 273 of Aristotle’s rejoinder? Haha, you must be too poor”.
something something about conservation of momentum, them jumping off speeds up the trolley
Not if they jump from the front of the trolley
I’m assuming they’ll try to miss the cow catcher but I get that’s not a fair assumption to make all the time
VivianTg@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
They are tied to their chair with the only thing they can do being flipping the lever. It is the prisoner’s trolley problem