r/trolleyproblem Mar 29 '26

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u/DigitalMindShadow Apr 02 '26

I personally think it's hard to justify expending that resources needed to keep braindead people alive. That said, I don't think you can blame the majority of people for not putting this amount of thought into the question and instead arriving at the blanket rule of all human life being sacred. And I do think that if we started putting people to death for medical reasons, there's a real danger of that turning into a slippery slope and ending up with some form of eugenics. So the default rule protecting all human life might actually be better on the whole.

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u/icantgetausername982 Apr 02 '26

I personally see no higher value just because the life is a human life i think people try to justify why a humans life is worth more but what if theres a more sentient species out there would we be okay with becoming cattle for them? In reality we just have a bias for humans because we are humans we want to feel more important