benelliott comments on The Unselfish Trolley Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 17 May 2013 05:56:36PM 2 points [-]

I could not abide someone doing that to me or a loved one, throwing us from relative safety into absolute disaster. So I would not do it to another. It is not my sacrifice to make.

I could not abide myself or a loved one being killed on the track. What makes their lives so much less important.

Comment author: Petruchio 17 May 2013 06:19:15PM 0 points [-]

But would you approve of someone else doing the same thing? Again to you or a love one?

But I am starting to see the problem with fighting the hypothetical. It leads to arguments and borrowed offense, thus allowing the argument to lead into perpetuity. I can hypotectical be able to endure or not endure anything hypotectically, but this doesn't increase my rationality or utility.

This will conclude my posting on this page. Mayby OphanWilde's discussion will be a more appropriate topic than the Unselfish Trolley Problem.