Rationally Speaking #73 - Answers for Aristotle
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The Trolley Problem
In the earlier chapters of your book, you talk about how we reach different moral judgments depending on which sort of modules in our brain get activated. So, I'll briefly describe the trolley problem. This is a common thought experiment philosophers opposed to people ask: if there was a train that was going to hit five children sitting on the tracks, would you divert it? And most people say yes, better for one person to die than for five people to die. But what if the only way you can stop the train is you're standing on a bridge above the tracks, and there's a very large man next to you,. You can choose if you want to push him over the bridge onto
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