That doesn’t mean that this strategy will ever work. It won’t happen instantly, but it also won’t even happen eventually.
Allow me to clarify the position. It’s like a child that learns their mother has cancer; even with expensive treatment, there’s no guarantee treatment will end her suffering or defeat the cancer. So the child decides to take the money for treatment and spend it instead on building a shrinking ship like in The Fantastic Voyage to go into their mother to attack the cancer directly.
Yes, a noble intention, but the strategy is a pure fantasy, and all it’s actually done is remove resources from a treatment that might actually accomplish something.
It’s a childish fantasy that directly harms people.
You can try to ease your conscience by saying that at some vague point in the future you can destroy the trolley entirely, but that is the future. The trolley problem already occurred. It already went past the switch, there’s no going back and changing that. You chose not to pull it, you have to live with that.
That doesn’t mean that this strategy will ever work. It won’t happen instantly, but it also won’t even happen eventually.
Allow me to clarify the position. It’s like a child that learns their mother has cancer; even with expensive treatment, there’s no guarantee treatment will end her suffering or defeat the cancer. So the child decides to take the money for treatment and spend it instead on building a shrinking ship like in The Fantastic Voyage to go into their mother to attack the cancer directly.
Yes, a noble intention, but the strategy is a pure fantasy, and all it’s actually done is remove resources from a treatment that might actually accomplish something.
It’s a childish fantasy that directly harms people.
We get it. You chose not to pull the lever.
You can try to ease your conscience by saying that at some vague point in the future you can destroy the trolley entirely, but that is the future. The trolley problem already occurred. It already went past the switch, there’s no going back and changing that. You chose not to pull it, you have to live with that.
I think you’ve responded to the wrong person? I’m a lever-puller.