{"id":50194,"date":"2015-04-27T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/there-are-trolley-problems-and-there-are-trolley-problems.html"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:18:47","slug":"there-are-trolley-problems-and-there-are-trolley-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/there-are-trolley-problems-and-there-are-trolley-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"There Are Trolley Problems, and There Are Trolley Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Classic Trolley Problem (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trolley_problem\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trolley_problem<\/a>): <i>There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options: (1) Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track. (2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. Which is the correct choice?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t recall these variations in Philosophy Class in college: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/lesser-known-trolley-problem-variations\">http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/lesser-known-trolley-problem-variations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104253774537638039236\" oid=\"104253774537638039236\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6142653783370170241\/6142653798761254354'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ycSfwBSpAJI\/VT8XFbVeTdI\/AAAAAAADNZc\/XNxd1Cj0hcQ\/trolley_problem%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Hk7KztpRSq4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Classic Trolley Problem (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trolley_problem): There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/there-are-trolley-problems-and-there-are-trolley-problems.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There Are Trolley Problems, and There Are Trolley Problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/trolley_problem5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128731,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/because-everyone-loves-a-trolley-dilemma.html","url_meta":{"origin":50194,"position":0},"title":"Because everyone loves a Trolley Dilemma","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Nov-15 10:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For all those who enjoy hypothetical moral questions. 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