i constantly say im gay to make sure i dont go believing otherwise. it works
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You’re driving along a coastal highway when you spot a man drowning in the ocean. If you stop to rescue him, your passenger, a doctor delivering a vial of cancer-fighting serum to a nearby hospital, will be delayed in treating a dying patient who has dedicated his life to helping the poor. To make matters worse, the man in the ocean is shouting, “I know a way to bring lasting peace to the Middle East, and I’m the only one with this information!” Meanwhile, your passenger is using the onboard computer to look up “best local seafood,” which doesn’t affect your dilemma one way or the other, but is nonetheless annoying.
You spot a squirrel in the middle of the road. If you don’t brake, you will kill the squirrel. However, you happen to know that the squirrel is on his way to kill two other squirrels. How do you react? What if the two other squirrels are known arsonists?
The ethics of driverless car technology is . . . a subject of debate. A report [in June] in the journal Science found that most people surveyed think that it would be more moral for a driverless car to be programmed to crash into a wall and sacrifice its passengers rather than hit a larger number of pedestrians, if it only had those two choices.
