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The Wikipedia article says that 90% choose to touch the lever, and 10% choose the first option. But people are more in agreement with you than it seems, becaus
by cjbprime 12y ago
The Wikipedia article says that 90% choose to touch the lever, and 10% choose the first option.
But people are more in agreement with you than it seems, because changing the formulation to the (ridiculously impossible) "fat man" version of the thought experiment causes most people to change their mind, even though the morally salient features of the experiment (choosing to kill one innocent person in order to save five innocent people) have not changed.