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TheOtherDave comments on Please Don't Fight the Hypothetical - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: TimS 20 April 2012 02:29PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 November 2014 10:21:46PM 1 point [-]

FWIW, my answer in trolley problems is usually some variant of "Well, what I would do is probably dither ineffectually between alternatives until the onrushing train takes the choice out of my hands, but what I endorse doing is killing the smaller group." (Similarly, the truth is that faced with the canonical PD I would probably do whatever the cop tells me to do, whether I think it's the right thing to do or not. Fear is like that, sometimes. But that's really not the point of the question.)