Imagine thinking there's a "right" answer to the Trolley Problem.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2024
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This isn't a trolley problem. Killing CEOs is not going to save any more lives or "fix the system" in any way.
There's no guarantee that the new CEO will be better or worse, and if they feel threatened enough they'll just hire security.
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They’re being manipulated. I lost my dad to these fucking ghouls. I texted my mom a message making fun of this dude getting shot and my mom took the side of the CEO and said I’m terrible for wishing death on someone.
He is one of many in the system who killed father and my moms defending him? All she does all day is watch liberal mainstream media who are all slobbing his knob about how this is a tragedy. She’s toast, she’s totally brainwashed by them.
There's no brainwashing, obviously the mainstream opinion would be that killing someone is bad, regardless of why.
Given the ratio of laughing emojis on the company's Facebook post about the incident, I'm not sure that's mainstream opinion at all.
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This isn't technically the trolly problem, sorry to be pedantic. But the trolly problem is not in the deaths either track would cause, but in the decision to actively pull the lever and make yourself responsible for the outcome. Inaction means allowing what will be to be.
Eg, if the train is heading towards three people, and you can pull the lever to send it towards one, congratulations, you saved two lives. BUT you just made yourself responsible for the murder of one. Whereas before, you would not have been responsible for the death of the three.
Doesn't matter how dressed up the problem is, involvement means making yourself responsible for murder.
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