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

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Comment author: David_Gerard 06 December 2010 09:12:33PM *  1 point [-]

Trolley problems may be useful if you're e.g. an extremely smart person doing Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and you're destined for a career in politics where dealing with real-life lose-lose hypotheticals is going to be part of the job. Or if you want to understand such people, e.g. because you're on one of the metaphorical tracks.