Same. I know it's an immoral thought, but when you realize that them clogging up the hospital system due to selfish reasons is going to cost the lives of people that genuinely need hospital support (like those with cancer), it doesn't feel exactly immoral.
Well, that's an age old question in ethics and morality. The trolly problem. One answer/justification is "whichever solution saves more lives", but ultimately the decision costs lives as well. It's not a decision I would make in a slapdash way. I'd at least warn people it was coming and give them a chance to reconsider.
It's more like there are people who have tied themselves firmly to the tracks and also to people who do believe in the train and want to get off, but they cannot because they are tied to the train-deniers.
If we could build train wheels that skip over believers and kill only deniers, then I wouldn't even touch the train's brakes, but we can't do that.
Yeah, but that is essentially the problem. Your first thought is, "Why are they on the tracks, why don't they just move, what the hell?" and your ethics prof just says, "they are there and won't move". Thus you could apply any narrative to them that you like to justify when they won't move and technically the one you described would fit the bill.
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u/TurboGranny Texas 17d ago edited 17d ago
Same. I know it's an immoral thought, but when you realize that them clogging up the hospital system due to selfish reasons is going to cost the lives of people that genuinely need hospital support (like those with cancer), it doesn't feel exactly immoral.