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

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Comment author: wedrifid 15 January 2012 05:36:01AM *  2 points [-]

It dawns on me that there is a much more general tendency among most people to try to bail out of moral dilemmas or other hypotheticals.

And so they should. Moral dillemas are a social trap! If you must answer at all, never answer directly.

I just went in search of a comment thread in which myself and Eliezer both mentioned this issue. But it turns out that it was actually elsewhere in this thread