• Thought Experiment: The Trolley Problem

  • Feb 17 2023
  • Length: 18 mins
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Thought Experiment: The Trolley Problem

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  • Episode 6: Dave and Patrick discuss the thought experiment...

    The Trolley Problem - What would you do?

    Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XVcYLdAMPQY

    (Source: Wikipedia)

    The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. 

    The series usually begins with a scenario in which a runaway tram or trolley is on course to collide with and kill a number of people (traditionally five) down the track, but a driver or bystander can intervene and divert the vehicle to kill just one person on a different track.

    Then other variations of the runaway vehicle, and analogous life-and-death dilemmas (medical, judicial etc.) are posed, each containing the option to either do nothing, in which case several people will be killed, or intervene and sacrifice one initially "safe" person to save the others. 

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