• Soleos@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Heh it’s a fun “gotcha” kind of modification. Alas, it misunderstands the thought experiment. They’re not changing the emotional valence. They are removing a fundamental aspect of a dilemma: harm. One of the purposes of the trolley problem is to provoke the thinker into questioning what they believe about moral responsibility and (in)action.

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      10 days ago

      It’s changing the problem from definite harm and potential upside to definite upside and potential harm.

      It makes sense people value potential harm different from potential upside.

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          10 days ago

          The potential harm in the comic is lack of buff dudes, the potential upside in the classic is more good people being alive.