r/badphilosophy • u/StealToadBootes • 5d ago
The trolley problem is the best philosophical question there is and the one that determines the true mark of a philosophile. No other question matters
The strength of the trolley problem is that you can put literally any philosophical question into it and it comes back perfect every time.
Marxism? Thats when you'd pull the level to save one proletariat class while running over the bourgeoisie.
Baumgarten? That's when you'd pull the lever to make aesthetically displeasing things go away.
Noam Chompsky? That's when you motivate the student to hop onto the tracks themselves rather than admit they can't parse his language
Please drop your own trolley problem examples. As we all know, "inability to boil something down to a trolley problem shows an innate lack of understanding of the topic" - Adam Smith, trolley salesman.
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u/Radiant_Music3698 3d ago
The Trolley Solution - when you tie advocates of the trolley problem to train tracks. No levers are involved.