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#87: Sam Harris on Daily Routines, The Trolley Scenario, and 5 Books Everyone Should Read

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Would You Push the Fat Man in the Trolley Scenario?

i think it may be good to feel differently about the two cases. And i think those situations where you want to be callous for good reasons don't extend to allof life. I can imagine that a surgeon has to have a very different attitude toward pain and suffering than family members or even another person in the context of not performing his work asurgeon. So we should push the fat man if we would throw that switch. Ah, so that's the spirit of the estion. But it's also morally easier to do it. Your less in touch with the details of the death and destruction you're causing. This is a very interesting area to think about.

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