A Solution to the Trolley Problem

[Philosophy Now]

Rick Coste says the solution depends upon what we’ll realistically allow.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/154/A_Solution_to_the_Trolley_Problem

[attofishpi]

Rick Coste says the solution depends upon what we’ll realistically allow.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/154/A_ ... ey_Problem

This is a real problem now that is confronting programmers of self-driving cars. Does a programmer code to prioritse the avoidance of running down the young and kill the elderly in a situation where it's one or the other? So many things for a geek to think about these days.

[Gary Childress]

The only satisfactory solution for me is to throw myself on the tracks to protect everyone else. Otherwise, the trolley breaking free is an act of God and we know God is good and doesn't make mistakes. Those track workers probably deserve it anyway.

I give up. God wins in the end. He always does. Either might makes right or those track workers were rich capitalists who exploited the working class in another life and get what they deserve I guess.

[Age]

Rick Coste says the solution depends upon what we’ll realistically allow.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/154/A_ ... ey_Problem

This is NOT a so-called 'solution' AT ALL, as it just added MORE problems and issues here.

[Lawrence Fray]

I use the trolley problem to introduce utilitarianism to my A Level students, but I add a third scenario to the mix, to confound the hardened students who would push the fat man off the bridge, as follows: Just as you're about to push him off the bridge, you notice that the fat man is none other than Professor Protein, who is about to go on TV tomorrow to reveal his new, effective wonder-drug for cancer treatment. He's the only one who knows the formula!
Do you continue to push him of the bridge?