ThisSpaceAvailable comments on Link: Study finds that using a foreign language changes moral decisions - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Vladimir_Golovin 30 April 2014 05:26AM

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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 06 May 2014 12:15:51AM 1 point [-]

Another thing to look into is how much giving the people names changes things. Or even back stories.

"Will you let Bob Naylor, a 48-year-old mechanic who is working overtime on the trolley track to save up to pay for his daughter's wedding, die, or will you spare him by swerving the trolley into..."