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32 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 April 2011 02:50AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 April 2011 07:22:00AM 6 points [-]

Hypotheses: The hospital scenario involves a lot more decisions, so it seems as though there's more rule breaking.

You want a hard rule that medical personnel won't do injury to the people in their hands.

The trolley scenario evokes prejudice against fat people. It needs variants like redirecting another trolley that has many fewer people in it to block the first trolley, or perhaps knocking two football players (how?) into the trolley's path.

Comment author: Unnamed 09 April 2011 06:28:29PM 1 point [-]

There is an alternate version where the man on the footbridge is wearing a heavy backpack, rather than being fat. That's the scenario that Josh Greene & colleagues used in this paper, for instance.