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Yeah that's literally the trolley problem -- do you kill the 1-in-a-million person (due to adverse reactions to vacine) to save the 1-in-a-thousand people (who
by hnfong 3y ago
Yeah that's literally the trolley problem -- do you kill the 1-in-a-million person (due to adverse reactions to vacine) to save the 1-in-a-thousand people (who didn't catch measles due to vaccine)?
Of course you do, at least you do if you're the head of a public institution (who should be treating lives equally). But that's probably what GP meant by "bound to kill people".
The trolley problem is just a fun/meme way to visualize the choices influential people have to make daily. [And, FWIW, like the trolley problem, the choices get harder if you have a non-"neutral" agenda, i.e. when you can't just tally the number of lives impacted and abandon the group with less lives involved.]