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Saturday, February 22, 2020

Trolleys and paradox



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9 comments:

  1. Erin Rone4:15 PM CST

    I think the paradox is very interesting! It reminds me of an idea I learned in one of my high school science classes which was that nothing ever actually touches anything else. Since we are all made up of atoms, and atoms can't actually touch each other because of their positive/negative charge, we will always have an atomically small space between us and everything else because our atoms will be pushing others away and vice versa.

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  2. Geoff Giulini3:42 PM CST

    I feel like the paradox of killing one person to save 5 others really depends on the situation and circumstances at hand. It is never ok to take someones life and their are too many variables to come up with an ideal solution.

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  3. Michael Eckard4:44 PM CST

    It is immoral to kill someone, and immoral to let 5 people die. Which would you say is the lesser of two evils?... I choose the latter. Not that I would be capable of following through, but I do think it’s ultimately what should be done.

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  4. Maksym Ustynov8:23 AM CST

    Hmmmm. Without the knowledge of the people, 5>1
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  5. Sydney Durham9:07 AM CST

    This paradox has always troubled me, as I would not want anyone to die, but to choose between the two is so difficult as it presents a moral issue. I would like to think it depends on circumstances

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  6. Granville10:03 AM CST

    I think the great thing about this dilemma is the fact that it is a dilemma. You shouldn't be quick to say you'd kill someone. Is it worse to purposefully kill one person than allowing chance kill five? Hopefully this dilemma never happens in real life, but if it does it'd be tragic but very hard to report on considering the weight of this dilemma.

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  7. philosoraptor9993:57 PM CST

    So many variables come into play with this. For example, who is this person to you? If it were my mom or someone I love right in front of me, in a panicked situation I would save my mom vs. 5 people. I think in a desperate situation like that our instincts take over, and my instinct would always be to save the person I love. If the people were strangers, other things come into account. Is this one person an elder, and the 5 other people are children? If so I would choose the 5 children.

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  8. Zach Cannon4:20 PM CST

    I believe different variables can completely change the answer here, but for me usually I can’t justify sacrificing any one person for anything, even if that means killing others. One life means everything

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  9. Muad Saeed4:52 PM CST

    This question really reminds me of a movie scene from Batman's, "The Dark Knight." Were the Joker boobie trapped two ships. One ship contained innocent civilians while the other contained inmates. The hostages were given the option to blow up the other ship in order to save themselves. But fortunately both sides valued each other's live as if they were their own. #11

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