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The Pandemic Doesn’t Run on Trolley Tracks: A Comment on Eyal's Essay "Beware the Trolley Zealots"
Sociologica, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic raises various ethical questions, one of which is the question of when and how countries should move from lockdown to reopening. In his paper “Beware the Trolley Zealots” (2020), Gil Eyal looks at this question, arguing against a ...
Cansu Canca
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Crews operating remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs) in military operations may be among the few that truly experience tragic dilemmas similar to the famous Trolley Problem.
Markus Christen +5 more
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Vanderbilt Historical Review, 2016 The replacement of trolley systems by buses, a process which fundamentally reshaped America's urban landscape, has long been viewed as inevitable. However, in this paper, I look beyond arguments of financial necessity to show that, in New Haven, Connecticut, a massive engineering and publicity campaign coordinated between business, government, and ...
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Spatial transportation of the beam on a bifilar fastening [PDF]
FME Transactions, 2022 The complex problem of the spatial motion of the "trolley-beam" mechanical system is investigated. Three stages are considered: 1) movement of the beam on a bifilar suspension to the movable trolley; 2) movement of the beam after the breakage of one ...
Stadnik Alexander +3 more
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Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2014 Trolley problems have been used in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments and behavior. Most of this research has focused on people from the West, with implicit assumptions that moral intuitions should generalize ...
Natalie Gold +2 more
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The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, the ethical and spiritual aspects of the trolley problem are discussed in connection with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Morioka, Masahiro
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The Trolley Problem Revisited. An Exploratory Study
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2018 Recent studies by cognitive scientists demonstrate that people’s choices are more complex than the image provided by rational choice theory, and consistency of choice is not a characteristic to be expected in real-life situations.
Sharaf Rehman +1 more
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Daytime REM sleep affects emotional experience but not decision choices in moral dilemmas [PDF]
, 2017 Moral decision-making depends on the interaction between automatic emotional responses and rational cognitive control. A natural emotional regulator state seems to be sleep, in particular rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
Cellini, Nicola +3 more
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German Law Journal, 2023 With the promulgation of the Autonomous Driving Act in summer 2021, Germany took the worldwide lead on regulating self-driving cars. This Article discusses the (non-)regulation of moral dilemmas in this act.
Lando Kirchmair
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The Defense of Necessity Considered from the Legal and Moral Points of View [PDF]
, 1999 Questions concerning the scope of the defense of necessity frequently arise in a variety of legal and philosophical discussions. Professor Christie grapples with the questions raised by this defense: When can property be taken or destroyed to save human ...
Christie, George C.
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