RE: Answer the Question Above You
06-16-2016, 01:31 PM
I'm assuming you're looking for an answer with respect to minmaxing world happiness via a utilitarian sacrifice so clever answers like "everyone take turns with the button" or "only volunteers/altruists" aren't viable answers in the scope of the question. If this maximized happiness value came at the expense of one person doomed forever in button pushing hell then I would reject it. I have enough faith in humanity to eventually optimize happiness on their own without a magical sacrifice and it simply wouldn't ever sit well with me forcing them into that fate. I guess in essence I'd prefer an endgame in which everyone shoulders a small burden than one person taking it all.
That said I'd probably push the button.
Would you describe yourself as teleological or deontological? Mainly, where do you fall on the trolley problem? (Out of control trolley barreling towards five people but you could pull a lever to divert it towards a single person, do you pull it? You have no other possible interactions with the system besides pulling the lever or not pulling it.)
That said I'd probably push the button.
Would you describe yourself as teleological or deontological? Mainly, where do you fall on the trolley problem? (Out of control trolley barreling towards five people but you could pull a lever to divert it towards a single person, do you pull it? You have no other possible interactions with the system besides pulling the lever or not pulling it.)