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briandmyers · 3418 days ago · link · · parent · post: Philosophy experiment: Should You Kill the Fat Man?
Exactly so. For me, this became absurd as soon as we were required to accept as FACT that torture had a 75% success rate.
I felt the same way. Analogy: "If you won a billion dollars in the lottery, would you ever play the lottery again?" "No, I'm rich." "But what if you had a 99% chance of winning again in one try, are you sure you don't want to reconsider your blanket statement?" "Why didn't you include the statement I consider to be absurd in the original question?" "..."