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

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Comment author: Desrtopa 08 December 2010 04:34:28AM *  2 points [-]

but it's also remarkably effective at dispelling objections of implausibility and rejection of the experiment.

If this were a real situation rather than an artificial moral dilemma, I'd say that if you can't silence the baby just by covering its mouth, you should shake it. It gets them to stop making noise, and while it's definitely not good for them, it'll still give the baby better odds than being smothered to death.