You are a moral philosophy professor
…you wish! :-P
This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors, they’re jealous of dem gainz.
Who are we to decide that tying people to train tracks is wrong?
Maybe they want to be tied up and have a train run on them.
A classic romance. That’s how my mom married an engineer!
Sometimes love hits like a freight train
*passenger train
This is the best take I’ve seen so far. Thanks for giving me a good laugh.
Finally the point of the trolley dilemma: recognition that you don’t know your moral culpability until you analyze the structures in place that led to it: i.e. who tied these folks to the tracks and why are you in this position being given this choice and by whom, etc.
The trick is to figure out if you’re doing it for the intrinsic enjoyment of doing it or extrinsic financial reasons
Which one is better?
Yes
tie people to the railsoffer directed study credits to graduate students participating in the professor’s research
