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Posted on October 18, 2017April 17, 2018 by lavenderhat · 3 Comments

Why I Don’t Pull The Lever: A Consequentialist Case for Moral Absolutes

It's a classic thought problem in philosophy: An out-of-control trolly is headed down a track where it will hit and kill five people. You are in control of a lever which, if pulled, will divert the trolly to a track where it will only kill one person. Should you pull the lever?

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