I let a lot of people die that night without even thinking of it as a problem. I suppose, in my dungeon, they would be the dots that made up the floor. The things that don't even register as human until you stop and think about them. People were between us, and he killed them. And that was entirely his doing, but I could have stopped it if I just stopped and turned around and let him kill me.
I didn't. I don't even think of them all that often. I've never lost sleep over it. I was doing the right thing. If I had just died while achieving nothing, more people would be hurt than were from my running for higher ground.
And yet the people whose names I know? I don't think I could sacrifice them.
The trolley problem doesn't interest me in itself, so much as the way that answers change with the identities of the people involved. I could let a hundred people die for the greater good without a second thought, and yet I wouldn't be able to give up someone I cared about.
If there's a difference, that's where it lies. You are callous and ruthless, and I am callous and ruthless only until I might be forced to live with the consequences of my choices.
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I let a lot of people die that night without even thinking of it as a problem. I suppose, in my dungeon, they would be the dots that made up the floor. The things that don't even register as human until you stop and think about them. People were between us, and he killed them. And that was entirely his doing, but I could have stopped it if I just stopped and turned around and let him kill me.
I didn't. I don't even think of them all that often. I've never lost sleep over it. I was doing the right thing. If I had just died while achieving nothing, more people would be hurt than were from my running for higher ground.
And yet the people whose names I know? I don't think I could sacrifice them.
The trolley problem doesn't interest me in itself, so much as the way that answers change with the identities of the people involved. I could let a hundred people die for the greater good without a second thought, and yet I wouldn't be able to give up someone I cared about.
If there's a difference, that's where it lies. You are callous and ruthless, and I am callous and ruthless only until I might be forced to live with the consequences of my choices.