shokwave comments on The Problem With Trolley Problems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 24 October 2010 02:23:00PM 0 points [-]

I rather think they are more plausible and will save lives more surely than the fat man's corpse, but the thought experiment strongly implies that the fat man course of action will surely succeed - and I wanted to make my point without breaking any of the rules of the thought experiment, so as not to distract critics from the central argument.