except that you're not locked in a booth, so there actually are things you can do besides pull a lever.
nsrxn
joined 1 week ago
no, you don't need to accept it.
it is immoral to flip the switch and murder someone. that doesn't make the situation acceptable
but they have no responsibility for the circumstances.
you can't murder through inaction, unless words don't mean anything.
but some of them choose to become murderers
the whole damn trolley problem thing
doesn't have an answer. it's a thought experiment to expose your personal ethics. deontologists never touch the switch.
you can't be responsible for something you didn't cause. that's not how responsibility works.
voting makes them responsible for the bodies.
It ["depraved heart" murder] is the form [of murder] that establishes that the wilful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues as is the express intent to kill itself. This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere negligence... It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence... It involves rather the deliberate perpetration of a knowingly dangerous act with reckless and wanton unconcern and indifference as to whether anyone is harmed or not.