• davidgro@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I feel like blame is the very obvious factor missing from most descriptions of trolley problems I’ve seen.

    “Will it send me to jail?” is a highly important question for something that might easily be considered murder even if it does prevent other deaths.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      3 hours ago

      the blame aspect is the original purpose of the trolley problem, it’s about whether the trolley puller can accept the moral blame of killing the one person (and saving 5 others) in the original postulation // is the trolley puller blameless for non-intervention even when intervention is trivial