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TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!
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Flaws in the trolley problem

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Psychology has presented the trolley problem.

You are at a switch that can change the rails of a trolley line. The rails are shut down for repairs and there are three workers on one of the rails and there's one worker on the other rail.

Without warning a runaway trolley comes down the line. It's headed for your fork in the line. You're too far away to warn the workers and the trolley will stay on the first rail and kill the three workers. You can hit the switch and elect to kill only the single worker. What do you do?

Most volunteers elect to hit the switch.

The scenario is rewritten so that it is a single line with you next to a single worker and further down the line around a bend are three more workers. When the runaway trolley comes you can push the worker onto the track which will derail the train on the bend, saving the three workers but killing the one. Same results as previous. However most people do not elect to kill the one worker in this scenario and allow the three to die.

The first flaw in this idea is that there is no moral outcome. There are cases in life where there is no moral outcome but to guage moral behavior on a fundamentally immoral thought experiment is flawed. The second flaw is that in the second scenario the subject must become a murderer when the option is open to sacrifice ones' self instead.

The reason the test deviates in results is that the subject, at some level, realizes that they will be confronted as to why they did not offer up themselves and instead elected to murder someone.
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Scientifically speaking, why are the orcas attacking the boats?
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Isn’t it bad medical procedure to vaccinate your entire population when the results are unknown? Wouldn’t it be a benefit to have 10% of the population unvaccinated in case something goes wrong down the track?
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What is the retention value of information?
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what's this symbol?
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Would it be ethical to murder the unvaccinated?
After which you would have to self isolate for two weeks of course and then test negatively for covid and all variants
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Find a flaw with my strategy

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Single-dose immunity ~12 weeks
I don't want the almost guaranteed probability of side effects from the second dose. inb4 "side effects are rare," "it's your civic duty," "take one for the team," etc. Aerate yourself with lead.

The most bang for my buck with no drawback of side effects is to get the first dose once now and once later, which will get me through the winter. I will just tell them to fuck off when they call me to schedule the kill shot.

The only flaw I can think of is that they seem to be in no hurry to tweak the first dose of the regimen for the current variants and that's the one I'd be taking.
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Debating with coordinate transformations must have triggered someone last time. I'm back from a ban.

Super serious, honest science and math discussion here.

Our black hole model is wrong because it presumes particles can enter and pass the event horizon. They cannot. The event horizon is a null surface and thus cannot contain massive particles, worldlines or null geodesics.

The null surface of the event horizon is a null surface in all coordinate systems.

No coordinate transformations can change this mathematical physical fact. I will not discuss the non sequitur of coordinate transformations anymore.

The upshot of all this is Asymptotic Darkness. This is the physical material of black holes and it is more like ultradense mass that produces white holes. These white holes can be stabilized by forming Einstein-Rosen bridges with other black holes. In our universe this produces common spin between distant supermassive black holes, and the dark matter phenomenon.
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For over a hundred years scientists and doctors said that smoking cigarette was completely harmless and in fact had health benefits

When did doctors and scientists suddenly become infallible about new medical technology?
t. 30 year old with a 99.994% survival chance so not getting vaccinated as I have no personal need
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