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Ah, beryllium the beryllium cellphone in my pocket. Thanks, Manik, nice. My last post (Do the right thing. But what?) provoked a variety of responses, some to do specifically with the question of walking, some about cricket and morality in general, and a couple simply about the trolley problem. Colin Beck wrote in with an alternative explanation to why we react differently to the two beryllium questions that were posed. In the first one, he says, "We can save four lives by flicking a switch. We have a natural tendency to believe that the switch is mechanically sound, and that there is no risk of anything going wrong." But in the second instance, he says: [T]he cause and effect are not so clearly coupled. Although we are told that the fat man will stop the trolley, a number of potential problems are immediately apparent. First, we may not be able to push the fat man off the bridge - he is fat after all, and he may struggle.
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