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@hisham_hm @mwl People really take the wrong thing away from the trolley problem. It isn’t directly about what you personally would or should do. Instead, it’s like an axis of comparison for ethical frameworks. It’s one of the extremes where differences (and sometimes similarities) between them become more apparent.

Like how Schrödinger’s cat isn’t saying the cat is both alive and dead, it’s taking a model we have for quantum effects and showing how, when taken to extremes, it produces results which are patently absurd.