Nornagest comments on The Trolley Problem: Dodging moral questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 05 December 2010 07:22:30PM 3 points [-]

IAWTC in principle, but have noticed in practice that similarly formed questions almost always segue into an appeal to popularity or an appeal to uncertainty. Since dealing with these arguments is time-consuming and frustrating (they're clearly fallacious, but that's not obvious to most audiences), it usually works better to reject the premises at step one.

Same goes for most trolleylike problems posed in casual debate.