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

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Comment author: SilasBarta 22 January 2013 08:03:37PM 3 points [-]

True, and people should certainly try that, but sometimes the proponent of the dilemma is so confused that switching to the LCPW is ill-defined or intractable, since it's extremely difficult to remove one part while preserving "the sense of" the dilemma.

That's what I think was going on here.