Schrödinger's Name
Blessed With A Curse
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Thinking about this 'issue'... Would the person who pulled the lever get convicted of murder?
It still baffles me that the majority says they would pull the lever. I wonder what it says about their conscience. Do they have a lower awareness or conscience of guilt when it comes to their own actions (combined with a catalyst)? Why don't they feel as a part of the scene even though they are the ones who intervene and decide over someone else's fate?
But it's a hypothetical situation, right. In some way I hate hypothetical questions like 'would you push the button', 'would you rather be blind or deaf',... You most likely (and hopefully) won't ever have to make such a hard decision. In reality I think most people wouldn't dare to touch the lever. It's easy to imagine doing such thing, but that's all it is; imagination. (Though you could bring the Milgram experiment into this... There are questions about the validity of the experiment. -And the traumatized people after they realized they would have killed someone if the person receiving the electric shocks was real-)
It still baffles me that the majority says they would pull the lever. I wonder what it says about their conscience. Do they have a lower awareness or conscience of guilt when it comes to their own actions (combined with a catalyst)? Why don't they feel as a part of the scene even though they are the ones who intervene and decide over someone else's fate?
But it's a hypothetical situation, right. In some way I hate hypothetical questions like 'would you push the button', 'would you rather be blind or deaf',... You most likely (and hopefully) won't ever have to make such a hard decision. In reality I think most people wouldn't dare to touch the lever. It's easy to imagine doing such thing, but that's all it is; imagination. (Though you could bring the Milgram experiment into this... There are questions about the validity of the experiment. -And the traumatized people after they realized they would have killed someone if the person receiving the electric shocks was real-)
