So your issue isn’t actually with (moral) reasoning under uncertainty or the trolley problem in general, it’s just with highly specific, really bad examples. Gotcha.
I think in general, if you find your plans to be complicated, involve causing someone else a large up-front cost, and you have very high confidence in the plan, the moral thing is to audit your certainty.
So your issue isn’t actually with (moral) reasoning under uncertainty or the trolley problem in general, it’s just with highly specific, really bad examples. Gotcha.
I think in general, if you find your plans to be complicated, involve causing someone else a large up-front cost, and you have very high confidence in the plan, the moral thing is to audit your certainty.