On May 25, 6:04 pm, psychohist <psychoh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> John Morrow posts, in part:
>
> Which essentially means that you are looking at
> the switch problem the same way that most people
> look at the fat man problem. It would be
> interesting to see how the various parts of
> your brain light up when asked that question.
>
> It appears I should answer this, since Brian seems to be making a
> similar assumption, and it's not a correct assumption.
>
> My gut reaction in the trolley problem is also to avoid interference.
> In general, my gut reaction in difficult situations is to get more
> facts in preference to jumping to conclusions. I think this is pretty
> innate for me: my father says that in my first English speaking
> preschool, people were worried when I stayed silent while other kids
> were were starting to talk the standard baby talk. After a while,
> though, I also started talking, but in complete, gramatically correct
> sentences. Evidently I just wanted to absorb all the relevant
> information - in this case the grammatical rules - before starting to
> use it.
>
> I confess my gut reaction in the fat man version is similar to that of
> Russell Wallace's nomad tribe character; it's only my considered
> considered reaction based on my ethical position that would save the
> fat man (though I probably wouldn't be strong enough to push him in
> front of the trolley anyway, if he's fat enough to stop it).
If it's THIS fat man, we would just have to see if you were big enough
to stop the trolley because you even think about shoving me, you go on
the tracks. And not so much to save those other people, although that
would be nice.
I don't have to outrun the bear.
Will in New Haven
--
"Do you have tiger
Nature? Strike without anger;
Kill without feeling."
Feather in <Poker for Cats>
>
> Warren J. Dew
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