Many problems that are “of the type of” the trolley problems are “locked-room” problems where the solution is unexpected.
So when I first encountered the problem, my answers were always of that type; “how can you solve this so that nobody dies?”
I never listed them all of my different answers before. This was my first time doing so.
You see, part of the problem with society — and it’s due to how we are mis-educated – is that we are frequently in situations where WE SEEM TO HAVE NO CHOICE – except the choices in front of us.
But reality isn’t a trolley problem. In some things? Sure. But in most, no.
Many times the solution is precisely “change the question” or “change the assumptions behind the parameters the answer must follow”.
That is the secret behind diplomacy for example. Why do we make weird deals with other nations that seem to have nothing to do with the problems at hand?
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“locked-room” problem btw – is “somebody was murdered in a locked room” and you have to figure out, using various bits of evidence, what is the likely way the person was murdered and the killer escaped.
and there will be various clues that if you piece the together the right way, you can figure out how the person was murdered and left in a locked room.
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