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Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by kennywinker on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:17AM (#31997800)
Like most people, you probably drive a car from time to time. Collectively, cars kills 30-40k americans every year. By choosing to drive you are a fractional murderer - statistically responsible for some slice of a death. Not many people will decide not to drive on learning this…
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Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by burnt-croissant on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:52AM (#31997999)
Or we can say (for example) that drivers kill 30-40k Americans every year. By being a bad driver and choosing to drive you are a fractional murderer.

But that's fine because and and I bad drivers are not.

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Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by kennywinker on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:06AM (#31998080)
How do you know if you’re a bad driver or a good driver? It seems like a pretty blatant tautology to say that only bad drivers kill. Willing to bet almost every one of those fatal car crashes were caused by people who would have said they were a good driver…
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