The Problem With the Trolley Problem

At 4:10 every 100 dollar bill shares the same serial code.

I thought the dilemma in the trolley problem was that the person was a loved one and the five were strangers.

Others have mentioned the five-kidneyed person. In the case of the judge, was the person he found guilty innocent of the crime but guilty of other crimes he was found not guilty of or did the judge know the person was going to kill the people he thought he was saving?

My problem with these problems is they're never specific enough🤨

I don't know why trolley is involved here at all if the essence of the problem is:
"You must choose how many people you kill".
Don't let anyone put you in such situation. It's not a casual shopping dilemma. You don't have to choose who lives and who dies.
The only true lesson this problem can teach you is that saving can be just as bad as killing.

Those audio tracks from the Stoicism: Become Undefeatable video… where do I find them??

First time after a while I decided to watch one of your "not-that-long" videos, and Nile! You talk to fast and you're monotonous. Not for me. Goodbye

Your voice is so nice 🙁

People need to broaden their narrow perspectives. Everything I heard is focused in limiting casualties/moral blame while they could easily avoid casualties (other than yourself potentially, if you're alone in the trolley) altogether. Let's assume the people are tied to the rails for some reason. Then that still leaves us with a couple of options:
– Using the engine itself to slow the train.
– Emergency Brakes: Applying hand brakes on every car.
– As a last resort, using designated derailment points or techniques to minimize damage.

Simple answer for me. What are the consequences to me if each choice? I take the one with the least consequences. If no or equal, just let it run. I didn't set up the problem, so not my problem. I will sleep just fine either way. Two tours in V-N and Laos and no sleep lost over the years.

Anyone who would flip the switch to "save" the three is immoral. Remember that we are all beholden to fate, which prevents us from doing anything from unaliving a murderer to save three or quitting our jobs and saving lives in the poorest countries of Africa. We choose to NOT save lives because of fate, which prevents seeing a positive action (saving three) as negating a negative action (unaliving one). Those who choose to take out the one is ultimately acting as God in one instance and then ignoring all the positives they can do every other day of their lives. This is not even a dilemma if you look at how you ignore saving lives. Really? Be a hero/ unaliver just because a question pops up so cleanly and clearly in front of you?

Gotta get that Exp

why would you kill one healthy person to save lives of 5 unfortunate people who can't take care of their organs.

Just save whichever side have the cutest girl… Easy.

As per the video thumbnail, I am most definitely saving my loved one. No questions about that.

Better question. Why did he have 5 kidneys?

Could you stop vocal frying? Just end sentences on a soft voice, your voice is great, but when you lose power in the end of the sentence it is not good

The trolley problem is actually only half of the thought experiment the second part has a doctor who can kill one healthy person for the organs needed to save 5 other people who are dying & thus is an exploration of what makes them different. at least in the original form.

There's only one fair way to go about this. Flip a coin.

Your mom is a trolley problem

maybe that one dude knows he is safe because trolleys don't use that track, so it is okay to be on it; but the other 5 people are knowingly taking a risk to be on any tracks at all ….like say there are 5 kids playing in the street with one kid up in the yard telling the others to get out of the street, when you come driving along and then swerve up into the yard to avoid the kids in the street; if that kid in the yard lives, those other kids will never listen to his good advice and warnings …. its like the saying "stop making stupid people famous" and don't save large groups of them by killing the one smart guy that did nothing wrong

I am immediately reminded of Trolley Problem, Inc., a game that takes these thought experiments and pushes them as far as possible to the edges. It's an interesting experience.

This isn't a problem at all.. just do whatever you want. It's an absolute win as long as someone you care about survives. Everyone else… well tough luck there. But life must go on

your videos are so peaceful