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by ChuckNorris89 1592 days ago
What's the trolley problem have to do with this situation?

Are there accidents where death is unavoidable? Yes, they happen every single day, but after the investigations and trials are over, the parties found responsible pay up for those deaths in either money or jail-time, or both.

Does that mean we should we allow machines to make deadly mistakes, especially when death IS avoidable? Absolutely not. We sentence humans for such mistakes. Machines (either their operator or their manufacturer) should also have the same liability.

Those are two different things which you're trying to spin into a strawman.
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0des 1592 days ago
Even this response is 'neither' :) I love it. Have a good weekend Chuck

/me roundhouse kicks out of the thread

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Msw242 1592 days ago
Right, this is closer to the following scenario:

Let's say you are on an overpass above a train, and a very fat man is in front of you. The train, if it isn't stopped, will kill 10 people on the tracks. But, if you push the person in front of the train, it will kill 11 people, and one of those would be you committing homocide.

What do you do?

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