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Old 04-17-2020, 06:50 PM   #5681 (permalink)
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Cost-benefit trolley problem.
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Old 04-17-2020, 06:51 PM   #5682 (permalink)
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A cost-benefit analysis is a type of trolley problem and it’s helpful to think of it that way because it brings home the reality of there being a literal price put on human life.
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Old 04-17-2020, 06:53 PM   #5683 (permalink)
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It's not a fucking trolley problem!

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Old 04-17-2020, 06:54 PM   #5684 (permalink)
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The defining attribute of the trolley problem is that it's a binary choice. Real life is almost entirely not binary choices.
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Old 04-17-2020, 06:56 PM   #5685 (permalink)
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Repeating it doesn't make it true, Donny.

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Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify clinging to something so unhelpfully reductionist. Just don't expect any of us to take you seriously.
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Old 04-17-2020, 07:10 PM   #5686 (permalink)
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The defining attribute of the trolley problem is that it's a binary choice. Real life is almost entirely not binary choices.
Real life boils down to only binary choices. You either do something or you don’t.
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Old 04-17-2020, 07:11 PM   #5687 (permalink)
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That's the same thing Chula said about free will.

You're both wrong.
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I understand there’s no free will. Describing it as “choices” is only because we have limitations within our language. Indeed, you either do something or you don’t. That’s indisputable. And entirely binary.
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Old 04-17-2020, 07:17 PM   #5689 (permalink)
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Ya'll should go to San Francisco and ride a trolley together, sort this problem out.
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