Decius comments on On Caring - Less Wrong

99 Post author: So8res 15 October 2014 01:59AM

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Comment author: Decius 16 October 2014 04:44:34AM 0 points [-]

I'll go a more direct route:

The next time you are in a queue with strangers, imagine the two people behind you (that you haven't met before and don't expect to meet again and didn't really interact with much at all, but they are /concrete/). Put them on one track in the trolley problem, and one of the people that you know and care about on the other track.

If you prefer to save two strangers to one tribesman, you are different enough from me that we will have trouble talking about the subject, and you will probably find me to be a morally horrible person in hypothetical situations.