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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 74 points 6 months ago

You are a moral philosophy professor

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...you wish! :-P

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 50 points 6 months ago

For every decision he fails to make, he does one push up

[-] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 2 points 6 months ago

The Chiti Way.

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 19 points 6 months ago

This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors, they're jealous of dem gainz.

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

Who are we to decide that tying people to train tracks is wrong?

[-] peto@lemm.ee 27 points 6 months ago

Maybe they want to be tied up and have a train run on them.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

A classic romance. That's how my mom married an engineer!

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sometimes love hits like a freight train

*passenger train

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

This is the best take I've seen so far. Thanks for giving me a good laugh.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

Finally the point of the trolley dilemma: recognition that you don't know your moral culpability until you analyze the structures in place that led to it: i.e. who tied these folks to the tracks and why are you in this position being given this choice and by whom, etc.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The trick is to figure out if you're doing it for the intrinsic enjoyment of doing it or extrinsic financial reasons

[-] Feyr@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[-] indepndnt@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago
[-] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

~~tie people to the rails~~ offer directed study credits to graduate students participating in the professor's research

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