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minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down11·7 hours agoRight, and one of the main, basic ways in which one can consider the trolley problem is that, regardless of the difference in outcomes, pulling the lever makes you morally responsible for what happens.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·5 hours agoThat’s hotly debated by moral philosophers and ethicists.
minus-squaredadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down3·7 hours agoAlso not pulling the lever makes you morally responsible if you “stand by and do nothing”
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 hours agoThat’s another way of looking at it
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 hours agoDecisions have consequences, doing nothing is a decision.
Right, and one of the main, basic ways in which one can consider the trolley problem is that, regardless of the difference in outcomes, pulling the lever makes you morally responsible for what happens.
That’s hotly debated by moral philosophers and ethicists.
Also not pulling the lever makes you morally responsible if you “stand by and do nothing”
That’s another way of looking at it
Decisions have consequences, doing nothing is a decision.