Which makes me think that yes, my incentives are screwed up here and the correct answer is: I should be as willing to jump as to push the fat man off the bridge.
Beware of the straw Vulcan/Dickensian rule “The needs of the many...”. This is deontology disguising as utilitarianism. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and you don’t have to feel bad when it doesn’t.
Beware of the straw Vulcan/Dickensian rule “The needs of the many...”. This is deontology disguising as utilitarianism. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and you don’t have to feel bad when it doesn’t.