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The Trolley Problem is basically a rewording of the moral dilemma that Dostoevsky posits in The Brothers Karamazov. As with any thought experiment, the dichotomy presented here is contrived; but successfully lays bare the ugly side of utilitarian ethics. “Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell me the truth.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov theatlantic/magazine/archive/2013/11/why-we-fightand-can-we-stop/309525/
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:01:24 +0000

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