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Viliam comments on Wild Moral Dilemmas - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 12 May 2015 12:56PM

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Comment author: Viliam 14 May 2015 08:20:06AM 2 points [-]

it is often more effective to invest resources in taking preemptive steps to avoid moral dilemmas than it is to prepare for, or expect to be satisfied with your behavior in, actual moral dilemmas.

Such as to build some safety mechanism in trolleys? :D

Also, Bible says "do not bring us into temptation" instead of "help us overcome temptation".