Would You Kill The Fat Man-Edmonds
#notesFromPaper Year : Tags : Authors: Edmonds
Brings up an interesting variation of the trolley problem, the Churchill problem
My god there’s a lot of trolley problems
this thing has too many trolley problems. p83 introduces two more
p109 goes into some epistemology and JTB theory
showing the looped trolley problem or the fat man problem before SPUR causes people to change how they view SPUR
If the puller wants to kill the one person in SPUR, people find it unethical.
- captain eating his cabin boy
- blowing up the fat man w/ dynamite
- pushing the freezing man off the ladder
- Sophie’s choice
- The conjoined twin seperations
- smother a child to save from the Nazis?
- there’s apparently a gender divide with this one, but not the lifeboat jettison problem
- jettison from the lifeboat?
there was a real life surgeon case with a doctor who killed a guy faster for his organs (he was dying anyways). He claimed DDE that he was just giving painkiller meds to give him comfort.
Brain damage, an inability to visualize things, blunted emotions, all of these can make you have less of an emotional response to morality.
Is it moral to modify your mind to be a better person? A happier person? Reminds me of the experience machine
the ultimatum game
