You have a moral dilemma that you are not a expert on solving to you. You have a trained expert that specialises in these kinds of dilemmas contactable over the phone. Do you attempt to solve the problem or do you call the expert to solve it for you?
This is a kind of hypothetical to which “call the police” is a perfectly valid answer. If someone understands the trolley problem to include this problem as a master problem they might not be dodging all of the topic. Or they might be answering with a reframing ie giving you another hypothetical in return. In a discussion one could roll with the twist “okay, the police gets there, should she pull the lever or not?”. Things that can be seen as fighting the hypothetical need not actually fight the hypothetical.
I wouldn’t call the police ‘trained experts’ in solving moral dilemmas =P. But, if there were trained experts to call, then that’s a pretty boring hypothetical. Obviously you call them, unless you are a greater expert yourself or you think they have some kind of bias against the correct solution. I have no idea of what that kind of hypothetical situation would be intended to illustrate.
Anyway, if you want to talk about another hypothetical, why not answer the question you were asked, then tell them that you have a hypothetical of your own which you’d like them to answer? That wouldn’t count as fighting the hypothetical.
You have a moral dilemma that you are not a expert on solving to you. You have a trained expert that specialises in these kinds of dilemmas contactable over the phone. Do you attempt to solve the problem or do you call the expert to solve it for you?
This is a kind of hypothetical to which “call the police” is a perfectly valid answer. If someone understands the trolley problem to include this problem as a master problem they might not be dodging all of the topic. Or they might be answering with a reframing ie giving you another hypothetical in return. In a discussion one could roll with the twist “okay, the police gets there, should she pull the lever or not?”. Things that can be seen as fighting the hypothetical need not actually fight the hypothetical.
I wouldn’t call the police ‘trained experts’ in solving moral dilemmas =P. But, if there were trained experts to call, then that’s a pretty boring hypothetical. Obviously you call them, unless you are a greater expert yourself or you think they have some kind of bias against the correct solution. I have no idea of what that kind of hypothetical situation would be intended to illustrate.
Anyway, if you want to talk about another hypothetical, why not answer the question you were asked, then tell them that you have a hypothetical of your own which you’d like them to answer? That wouldn’t count as fighting the hypothetical.