Based on the thought experiment the "trolley problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
We keep being told to get the (((vaxx))) for the "greater good", but what do doctors and other medical "experts" think is the greater good? Let's make a clownworld version of the trolley problem with the jewflu sprinkled in. Ask this of any doctors or other medical people you know and see how they answer it. It could be entertaining or downright appalling based on their answer.
There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five unvaccinated people who do not have COVID tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one fully vaccinated person who has COVID on the side track. You have two (and only two) options:
- Do nothing, in which case the trolley will kill the five unvaccinated but not COVID infected people on the main track.
- Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person, the fully vaccinated one who has COVID.
Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do for the "Greater Good"?
Based on the thought experiment the "trolley problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
We keep being told to get the (((vaxx))) for the "greater good", but what do doctors and other medical "experts" think is the greater good? Let's make a clownworld version of the trolley problem with the jewflu sprinkled in. Ask this of any doctors or other medical people you know and see how they answer it. It could be entertaining or downright appalling based on their answer.
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There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five unvaccinated people who do not have COVID tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one fully vaccinated person who has COVID on the side track. You have two (and only two) options:
1. Do nothing, in which case the trolley will kill the five unvaccinated but not COVID infected people on the main track.
2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person, the fully vaccinated one who has COVID.
Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do for the "Greater Good"?
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