"it is too removed from emotion to be an accurate depiction of behavior."
I'd be curious to find out how people's ACTUAL behavior in ethical dilemmas compares to how people talking about thought experiments SAY they'd behave.
Probably CMU's Institutional Review Board would not approve research that involved making participants shove people in front of runaway trolleys, though!
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Date: 2006-08-01 06:47 am (UTC)I'd be curious to find out how people's ACTUAL behavior in ethical dilemmas compares to how people talking about thought experiments SAY they'd behave.
Probably CMU's Institutional Review Board would not approve research that involved making participants shove people in front of runaway trolleys, though!