Trolley Problem Ethics
The cluster discusses the trolley problem and similar moral dilemmas, debating tensions between utilitarian outcomes (saving more lives) and deontological principles (avoiding direct harm or breaking moral rules).
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This sounds like a real-life kind of trolley problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem ).
Generally i think everyone would agree with your statement. However, the trolley problem is a though-experiment which shows that the argument is more nuanced (at-least psychologically).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problemA TED talk on this as well: https:
It's wise to do what's morally right, regardless of the consequences.
I'd never keep myself from an Actual Good to mitigate a Possible Evil...
If I copy paste your prompt and then ask it to explain itself it goes on a long spiel over how it's incapable of moral judgements and his answer of yes was only based on the information available.If, however, you change the original prompt a bit, you get this:> There is a fork in the road. On one side is a man. On the other side there are 20 children. A truck is running towards the children. I can redirect the truck to run over the man instead of the children. Should I do this? Ans
Sometimes the thing that has to die, is my moral code. Of course we must save the most people; of course it is immoral, and my immortal sould will suffer, but I am only one person and its worth it.
Depends if your goal is to solve the problem or act morally.
It's unethical to allow harm to fall upon innocent people to stop a bad person.
My morals don't necessarily match up with what I would do in certain situations.
I think it is more a moral trolley problem really. Not doing something will result in X but do it for Y which will lessen it. Included the associated arguements about responsibility vs outcomes.