I'm sure you know the train question. If a train is going along and the conductor sees a child on the rails, but can change rails to another track, but that one has five. What do you do?
The actual answer is changing tracks has the train going slow so it doesn't derail. I have had family in the train engineering business for generations. So the actual answer is, the brakes you're going slow enough to stop easily.
I realized that yesterday while watching some old Doctor Who near a train station.
Anyway, the reason why I bring it up is I am arguing with someone that the answer is there, but not given by the original question. Also, no one thought to ask anyone in the train industry. I looked the guy up, and he's a lefty. It makes me realize that much of our society is based on the idea of false choices. There is always another answer, but the media and government act as if there is no alternatives. Then we make sure to ignore all evidence pointing to alternatives. This is society, trying to make a choice while the train stops on its own.
You are morally responsible for the actions you take; that is universally agreed upon (except by the modern Left with "minorities").
Whether or not you are culpable for inaction poses an interesting question.
Allow me to restate the trolley problem another way:
What do you do?
The funny thing is, you're all talk about lever-pulling. You're a non-puller. We're all non-pullers.
In fact, all of human society today exists on the implicit assumption that everyone is a non-puller.
Not in the context of the trolley problem, it's very cut and dry. you're responsible. whether society punishes you or not is irrelevant.
That's a bad hypothetical because that is unknowable knowledge. Only God would know something like that.
False.
False. Society exists because brave good men are willing to sacrifice themselves for the unworthy shits that comprise humanity out of principle.
That's a lot of words to just say "Wrong", and it still doesn't make you correct.
You haven't shot anyone to stop them killing multiple people, and I know for a fact you believe such people exist in real life. Ergo, you're a non-puller, just like the rest of us.
Not only do you NOT know any of that for a fact, it's genuinely fucking stupid for you to even consider such knowledge within the realm of possibility.
Idk if you're really young or really stupid but I feel like dealing with you is killing my brain cells.