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2021-03-03, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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#195
Firbolg in the Playground
Re: Useful Morality Subsystems (Alignment Replacements)
Grrr…
IMO, the trolley problem breaks down as follows:
If I do nothing, I am not at fault. I did not set this trolley on this path. If I act, I am at fault.
Moreover, if I act, I am *legally* at fault, and can be charged accordingly.
Moreover, I may be *wrong*, and what I *perceive* as a threat might not actually be a problem (shooting a film, for example). If I am wrong, then it could be a choice between 0 deaths and 1 death.
In order to remove all those excess variables… well, it depends on which aspect you *want* to evaluate.
Because, not unlike the original CaW vs CaS article, the trolley problem seems to be comparing too many variables at once.