shminux comments on The Unselfish Trolley Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 17 May 2013 05:16:29PM -1 points [-]

Which makes me think that yes, my incentives are screwed up here and the correct answer is: I should be as willing to jump as to push the fat man off the bridge.

Beware of the straw Vulcan/Dickensian rule "The needs of the many...". This is deontology disguising as utilitarianism. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you don't have to feel bad when it doesn't.