The thing about the Kobayashi Maru - Greg Pogorzelski - Medium

“Everybody knows that, sure, but nobody really ponders the implications, do they? It’s a scenario. It was designed.” “My point is, why do officers have to go through the Kobayashi Maru, Bones? What…

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@mwl

This is exactly how I feel about the Trolley Problem.

It is a completely unrealistic propaganda device for a kind of utilitarian philosophy. One with terrible consequences we see all around us today.

The fact that it comes from and is especially popular in the English-speaking world (and has slowly spread to the rest of the world via memes in the recent years) also denounces its lack of universality. It is not a fundamental moral dilemma. It is exactly what this story describes.

@hisham_hm @mwl The other solution to the trolley problem is to ask someone who works in a railway marshaling yard rather than a philosopher. They already know the answer, switch the points while the train is passing over them and derail it to stop it.
@adrianco @hisham_hm @mwl You mean ask an expert? Someone with real-life experience? Revolutionary!