• roguetrick
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    151 year ago

    Dentological ethics: you have a duty to not murder people, so you don’t pull the lever

    Utilitarian ethics: pulling the lever will kill less people

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      In this case it isn’t even a guarantee that anyone has to die as the problem is presented, the tram can just continue to be passed along. The default setting for the lever is “go to next” so to not pull the lever is easier both physically and morally.

      The individual that pulls the lever is the same individual that would take action to harm others for no benefit, and even in real life I can’t morally take responsibility for a person who runs over a child by purpose after I let his/her car merge in front of me just before a school crossing

      • superkret
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, but you have to factor in what sort of person would choose to man the 32nd lever with the power to kill half the people on earth.