Ethics
Should you pull the lever in the trolley problem?
A runaway trolley will kill five people. You can divert it to a track where it kills one. The question is not what you would do under stress, but what you think is right.
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Pull the lever
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Fewer deaths is better, and refusing to act is still a choice.
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Do not pull
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Diverting makes you the author of a death that would not otherwise happen.
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The framing is the problem
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Rare, artificial dilemmas are a poor guide to real moral life.
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