#trolley problems

[hipsternumbertwo]

Arasha asks a question...

[sylvansleuth]

the Correct response to Jollibee!!🍗😋

[vc55bughead]

Chanse: "have you ever wanted to kiss me?"

Angela: "....no."

*HUGE ASS SPIKE ON POLYGRAPH*

[partymothman]

I cannot say enough how much I want a collab of Dan and Phil being in an episode of Trolley Problems on 2nd Try

[ian-anthonyupdates]

Boy's mentioned on Try Guy's Insta 01/04/25

[gmax-centiskorch]

I love Trolley Problems

[ghostpalmtechnique]

I think I'm already pretty well-known to be on the "stop fighting the hypothetical" side of the trolley problem. I notice that the objectors tend to assume that the underlying situations the metaphor is being applied to must be related to a profit motive. This is not necessarily the case.

Proposed: It is ethical for for pediatric practices, individually or collectively, to refuse to see antivaxx families. (Arguably, I think it's reasonable for all medical institutions -- including emergency rooms -- to do this).

This is diverting the metaphorical trolley directly over the innocent children of the antivaxxers, and diverting it away from the much larger number of unvaccinated infants of sane people and immunocompromised individuals that also need medical care.

There is no profit-motivated regulatory regime you could have changed that brought us to where we are. Andrew Wakefield had a profit motive but no influence over the regulatory system; the modal disinformation agent on vaccines is doing it for free! You do actually have to decide what the most ethical arrangement is given current facts.

[daydreamdoodles]

"boy nipples? dime a dozen. ~*.girl nipples.*~? coveted." Kieth, 2024

[silvermoon424]

New reaction pic for y'all to be used when you get into an argument about trans healthcare and your opponent starts talking about the 0.8% or whatever of trans people who regret transitioning

[hipsternumbertwo]

Smosh Takes A Lie Detector Test • Trolley Problems

[sylvansleuth]

Jacob Wysocki on 2nd Try: Trolley Problems - A Hall of Mirrors Situation🚃

[masturbatress]

[st-just]

The root of my frustration with a lot of trolley problem discourse is that 'What does it mean to act ethically in a world where shitty luck and the actions of strangers you'll never meet have left you without any purely good options?' is, like, possibly one of the most relevant and universally applicable questions moral philosophy might help answer.

Saying it's a bad question because it's the negligent trolley engineer's fault literally exactly misses the point - yes how to deal on a personal level with systems and infrastructure that designed without much care for human collateral damage is an incredibly useful thing to think about!

[nando161mando]

They will decide to kill you eventually.

[flyingmirror]

I do think there is value in acknowledging that you don't know everything and so a third option might exist, but past a point that isn't all that useful when considering the trolley problem. No more than telling the class full of physics students learning about acceleration that their problem is useless because they aren't considering wind resistance in all its details.

Reality is complex, too complex to approach in one piece. So we break it down. We simplify, we put aside some factors to get back to later. Because we need to build from something. You aren't going to land a rocket on the moon with basic physics. But you don't get there by ignoring it, either.

"The trolley problem makes you ethically complacent because it releases you from a third option" the Trolley Problem is a fucking thought experiment, idiot, and a real-life comparison to matters where you DO NOT HAVE A THIRD FUCKING OPTION.

Shut the fuck up, oh my god.

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