The answer is the same as the original trolley problem. The only morally correct things to do is nothing, regardless of the outcome. If I don’t pull the lever and my loved one dies it wasn’t me who liked them. They were killed by whomever put them on the tracks.
The action/non-action question is one part of the problem, but not the sole or defining one to me. An certainly there is no simple answer as you suggest.
The answer is the same as the original trolley problem. The only morally correct things to do is nothing, regardless of the outcome. If I don’t pull the lever and my loved one dies it wasn’t me who liked them. They were killed by whomever put them on the tracks.
Freudian autocarrot
Lol
so I should keep the trolley running to kill the 1 billion people, and not divert it to run over my neighbors cousins old and dying cat?
It’s crazy how if you change the situation entirely you get a different result and optimal action
The point of the trolley problem isn’t really about utilitarianism or whatever, it’s to demonstrate that inaction can be an action.
The action/non-action question is one part of the problem, but not the sole or defining one to me. An certainly there is no simple answer as you suggest.
It’s a secret they only teach you in Philosophy 102.
dang, I knew it!