• Soleos@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Heh it’s a fun “gotcha” kind of modification. Alas, it misunderstands the thought experiment. They’re not changing the emotional valence. They are removing a fundamental aspect of a dilemma: harm. One of the purposes of the trolley problem is to provoke the thinker into questioning what they believe about moral responsibility and (in)action.

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        11 days ago

        It’s changing the problem from definite harm and potential upside to definite upside and potential harm.

        It makes sense people value potential harm different from potential upside.

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            10 days ago

            The potential harm in the comic is lack of buff dudes, the potential upside in the classic is more good people being alive.