Let's begin by watching the following videos, explaining the famous "Trolley Problem", a thought experiment to demonstrate some key ethical dilemmas: After you watch the video, think and discuss: How would you behave in the first example? What motivates this decision? How about in the revised example? What, if any, difference is there in your reaction? What creates this difference? What other modifications to the problem can you come up with that would focus the dilemma in other interesting ways? Finally, this dilemma is not realistic, but we should think about real-world instances of "trolley problem" thinking at work. Here's one of my recent favorites . (other take here and here ) This TedEd Video offers some historical and social context to this problem. And now you smart enough to get this Existential Comics cartoon:
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