Quote Originally Posted by Florian View Post
Even when used in its harshest form (Decide: You kill 1 or I kill 5, you have 3 seconds), itīs senseless to discuss the action before discussing the fundamental morality to weight the action. This, and the mix-up that follows, makes alignment discussions at once worthwhile (people reveal a lot about themselves) and totally fruitless.
All this "harshest form" will tell you is people will blather on about what they think they will do, and what they think the moral thing is, and then when it comes to crunch time a real person will freeze up. What the trolley problem really a hypothetical that shows you that what we believe & thinking and has nothing to do with reality, and that 'hypotheticals' are frequently useless because they're so disconnected from reality.