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{{li|start=y|I=S1/MX/A|tradition=MX onto A, MX onto ES|Q=618|Q2=618}}colonial trolley problem (United States) -> the concept of taking "systems" that anarchists and postcolonial theorists are convinced were only due to a few people making evil decisions and will surely be stopped through Popular Mentality and Education, and reducing those situations down to a scenario of a few people in daily life where the anarchist has a horrifying decision to make. | |||
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{{li|start=y|I=M3/MX|tradition=MX onto A, MX onto ES|Q=618|Q2=618}}Should Elijah kill to save the Indians? / Is it okay for Elijah to kill to save the Indians? / There is a camp of American Indians. Elijah is a member of a frontier town. His neighbors are about to go to war with the indigenous people to claim a coal mine. If Elijah kills his neighbors, he can prevent colonialism. (here referring to the personal prejudice that causes individuals to actively subjugate other ethnic groups.) The neighbors are not interested in becoming less racist. Is he ever justified to kill them? [https://www.galbithink.org/names/us200.htm] -><br /> | |||
to be clear: I think this is a good example of why trolley problems are stupid. I think this is a nice way to challenge the entire concept of trolley problems. trolley problems (and traditional ethics) assume that moral conundrums can actually be solved by single individuals making rational or emotional decisions, when often moral problems arise from complex interactions of two or more separate things behaving at the same time. | to be clear: I think this is a good example of why trolley problems are stupid. I think this is a nice way to challenge the entire concept of trolley problems. trolley problems (and traditional ethics) assume that moral conundrums can actually be solved by single individuals making rational or emotional decisions, when often moral problems arise from complex interactions of two or more separate things behaving at the same time. | ||
{{li|I=M3/MX|Q=618|Q2=618}}Should Elijah kill to save the Indians? -> I guess I did not think too hard about this question when I put it in. the better approach to this question would be to first acknowledge that Elijah {{em|can}} join up with an entire tribe and fight the frontier war with the other army or do whatever action they're going to do that way. that's {{em|possible}}. I wanted to bring out the most shocking aspects of the question but I wasn't meaning to limit the full scope of answers to it. | |||
{{li|I=M3/MX|Q=618|Q2=618}}How can Elijah stop colonialism? -> the general case, probably a separate Item from the specific 'trolley problem'. | |||
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Revision as of 21:57, 13 May 2026
Main entries
- colonial trolley problem (United States) -> the concept of taking "systems" that anarchists and postcolonial theorists are convinced were only due to a few people making evil decisions and will surely be stopped through Popular Mentality and Education, and reducing those situations down to a scenario of a few people in daily life where the anarchist has a horrifying decision to make.
Cases
- Should Elijah kill to save the Indians? / Is it okay for Elijah to kill to save the Indians? / There is a camp of American Indians. Elijah is a member of a frontier town. His neighbors are about to go to war with the indigenous people to claim a coal mine. If Elijah kills his neighbors, he can prevent colonialism. (here referring to the personal prejudice that causes individuals to actively subjugate other ethnic groups.) The neighbors are not interested in becoming less racist. Is he ever justified to kill them? [1] ->
to be clear: I think this is a good example of why trolley problems are stupid. I think this is a nice way to challenge the entire concept of trolley problems. trolley problems (and traditional ethics) assume that moral conundrums can actually be solved by single individuals making rational or emotional decisions, when often moral problems arise from complex interactions of two or more separate things behaving at the same time. - Should Elijah kill to save the Indians? -> I guess I did not think too hard about this question when I put it in. the better approach to this question would be to first acknowledge that Elijah can join up with an entire tribe and fight the frontier war with the other army or do whatever action they're going to do that way. that's possible. I wanted to bring out the most shocking aspects of the question but I wasn't meaning to limit the full scope of answers to it.
- How can Elijah stop colonialism? -> the general case, probably a separate Item from the specific 'trolley problem'.
Ideologies or fields
- HAS / ethics
- A / anarchism
- MX / existential materialism
- MX onto A