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In his 2017 article The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs, Masahiro Morioka considers the dropping of atomic bombs as an example of the trolley problem and points out that there are five "problems of the trolley problem", namely, 1) rarity, 2) inevitability, 3) safety zone, 4) possibility of becoming a victim, and 5) the lack of ...
The Kobayashi Maru test was invented for the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media. The nominal goal of the exercise is to rescue the civilian fuel ship Kobayashi Maru , which is damaged and stranded in neutral territory between the Federation and the Klingon ...
Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics.Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.
The tunnel problem is a philosophical thought experiment first introduced by Jason Millar in 2014. It is a variation on the classic trolley problem designed to focus on the ethics of autonomous vehicles , as well as the question of who gets to decide how they react in life-and-death scenarios.
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You stop dead in your tracks. Your heart races, heat rushes to your face, and your mouth goes dry. Is it…? You inch closer, barely trusting what you’re seeing. Yes. Yes, it is. You’ve just ...
The trolley problem is a thought experiment about the moral difference between doing and allowing harm. Thought experiments are used as a method in ethics to decide between competing theories. They usually present an imagined situation involving an ethical dilemma and explore how people's intuitions of right and wrong change based on specific ...
Trolley problems cannot be used to test for non-negotiability, because they force extreme responses (e.g., push or do not push). [45] So, to test the prediction, Guzmán and colleagues designed a sacrificial moral dilemma that permits compromise judgments, of the form "sacrifice x people to save y", where N > 1 people are saved for each one ...