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

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 December 2010 04:30:40AM 0 points [-]

I usually save this one for people who smugly answer both trolly questions with "they're the same, of course I'd kill one to save 5 in each case", but it's also remarkably effective at dispelling objections of implausibility and rejection of the experiment. I'm not sure why this works so well, but I think our bias toward narratives we can place ourselves in helps. Almost everyone at this point says they think they should kill the baby, but they just don't think they could

The at this point part is interesting. Have you ever tried asking the question without the abstract priming? I'd like to see the difference.