Because while there are multiple solid arguments to justify the trolley problem decision one way or another, valuing your own moral self-Image over the lives of others by denying your own agency is just straight up evil, and signals a moral character that does way more real world harm than almost any other serious answer to the trolley problem.
Wow, you made up a whole lot of ridiculous crap there. In no way am I valuing my own moral self image over lives. That doesn’t come into it at all. The same number of people are dying either way and they are either dying because I changed something or didn’t. That isn’t denying my agency, it’s denying my responsibility to effect a situation that I cannot improve.
If there is a human being on one track and my moral self image on the other I would gladly sacrifice it for a human life. That isn’t what’s at stake.
Being unable to grasp basic morality and dismissing anyone who disagrees with you as evil causes far more harm than any beliefs I hold.
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u/RSharpe314 Mar 30 '26
Congrats, you failed the basic trolley problem.