radical_negative_one comments on Far & Near / Runaway Trolleys / The Proximity Of (Fat) Strangers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: radical_negative_one 24 January 2010 07:58:29PM 3 points [-]

Perhaps the thought experiment would benefit from a sentence like this: "Omega appears and tells you that using the fat man would work."

Comment author: Jack 25 January 2010 04:06:43AM 1 point [-]

This is no better than stipulation.

Comment author: Larks 27 January 2010 10:39:41AM 1 point [-]

Yes- our ethical intuitions weren't designed to work in impossible cases.