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7 Post author: Eneasz 15 April 2011 07:00PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 April 2011 10:42:10PM 4 points [-]

Well, how exactly am I supposed to do this? I can't convincingly pretend to blow up the world, so there's always this caveat. Like in the case of the trolley problem, I suspect that I would simply freeze or be unable to make any reasonable decision simply due to the extreme stress and signalling problem, regardless of what my current introspection says.