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"content": "<p>The "Trolley Problem"<br /><a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/Theory\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Theory</span></a> + <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/Video\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Video</span></a> Clip</p><p>I always liked the theory of 'HOW things are done' a bit more than frankly the result or "unthinking" ways like...</p><p>...buying in the answer<br />...shipping it from somewhere else all the time... </p><p>The morality seems to suffer the same if you do not think and just go for the cheese or candy that inevitably 'someone else' has left there for a few reasons - not all of them freedom loving (or even shockingly aiming for the opposite!).</p><p>Here I discuss the morality of this theory in today's sense... but for more accuracy this is the wiki page reference of it...</p><p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_</span><span class=\"invisible\">problem</span></a></p><p> So I like also the non-extreme ways of thinking and not forcing people into binary in just the binary sense, but I do think you do have to think more often than not!!!... </p><p>like 70%+ of the time..</p><p>So it's like saying think deeper more than don't !</p><p>IF you do only the immediate and short-term ways the results are effected long-term because you are not looking at the bigger picture or even what the others are doing and how/why/etc. </p><p>Of course we're born into the problems so it's hard not to already be in problems and jump into it from day 1 (like when you're 18 trying to find a job or even having a <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/passport\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>passport</span></a> and what that means) so we all learn how bad it is AFTER... read terms and conditions after... or even learn what the terms mean in <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/legalese\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>legalese</span></a>...</p><p>So then it's learning and unlearning as you are unavoidably or highly probably going to do more harm or reach climactic problems by ignoring things especially when you do know or see it everywhere.</p><p>The morality and Trolley Problem are solved by long-term thinking..</p><p>and this equation....</p><p>☑️ long-term thinking = short-term </p><p>So if you can get the message through more often then everyone is a winner even after short-term disasters which are often unavoidable as time for thinking and acting has already gone, </p><p>Hardships mean just by doing the <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/bad\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>bad</span></a> less often in a methodical way within loss and becomes better from people needing to learn better (but yes this luxury of increasing <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/intelligence\" class=\"mention 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needs more than revisiting the same Trolley Problem situation over and over because things get worse in more areas if only doing that. </p><p>Life is undoubted a knock-on effect and connect to an eco-system we could work with more often (as a whole) instead of leaving everything to 'everyone else' (who is also thinking someone else has control or responsibility when it's really almost nobody!)</p><p>A SUMMARY OF ANOTHER KIND...</p><p>➡️ Humans learning a better way work long term</p><p>➡️ Not expecting a switch to solve it or even accepting "Trolley Problem" at all </p><p>For example everyone could spread the loss and lose together sharing the death in smaller way between more people AND solve it after a while like feeding people instead of profiting from them.</p><p>➡️ The short-minded choice *all the time* avoids responsibility and future children get the same problems happen and "the can is kicked further down the road" by current people avoiding responsibility.</p><p>➡️ Predicting the trolley problem (or even thinking of the trolley problem itself being a bad way to think) is better in the overall sense and reflects more to it in reality. </p><p>➡️ This predictive thinking of "doing better" and "I will improve this next time" by people I feel is what is missing from daily life. I admit it is often "enforced" by rules from past people but often this is just what parents tell us and can be a bit imaginary as a line we can't cross and may not even exist!</p><p>What we could do is break more smaller ones more often or test smaller rules as false fences of truth and what people think of a 'concrete' in the mind (a bit like Wizard of Oz not being a real thing and just a man behind a curtain).</p><p>➡️ Sometimes more than 'legal' 'illegal' definitions we see these things are only past people who try to put us in concrete binary definitions of "morality" which are clearly not because they often expect just people to follow and not debate or test things (it's usually purely for business what is legal and what is not).</p><p>➡️ When younger or as a family to defend each other's right to choice seems best to do it and learn why. Ok! Now go do it more often!</p><p>➡️ Don't be the person who would forget a problem and come across the same problem again later! <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/FreeSpeech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> etc!</p><p>➡️ Everything actually matters because it's the micro that adds to macro or larger blocks of life. </p><p>➡️ And you can't cheat (or else cheat yourself).</p><p>➡️ We all have to be responsible more often to solve these problems and have less of the <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/Trolley\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Trolley</span></a> <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/mindset\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>mindset</span></a>.</p><p>➡️ To die naturally happens and even that's from human-added choice (people want wars) so it's about the long-term habits and micro-choices which tie to principles that are going to solve it all or more often.</p><p>➡️ If not tied to principles or much more than going for the cheese then it seem you are constantly going to jump ships on fire and never going to improve your ship until all the ships are sunk.<br />Or worse get manipulated from shirking responsibility to control your own ship (your body or life).</p><p>➡️ SO THE PAST ALSO HELPS ACCEPT FUTURE LOSS... IF DON'T THE WRONG WAY ALREADY OR NOT ADAPTING TO CURRENT PEOPLE.</p><p>And if the past has made the long-term <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/unsustainable\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>unsustainable</span></a> or less <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/sustainable\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>sustainable</span></a> (population increases from using <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/fertilizer\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>fertilizer</span></a> and <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/fossilfuels\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>fossilfuels</span></a>) ignoring people's other needs of morality (another kind of happiness achieved even when poor) means further bad ways and more desperate ways to get that fuel, etc... like doing deals with <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/Russia\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Russia</span></a> (or whoever) - I mean didn't people get it after the Cold War or any war that you can't do deals with your Super-Power enemy! </p><p>➡️ So then we can only take the hit by going against or with the method as "a bit better" than repeating deals with the devils. <br />(E.G. 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Is a tough one but accepting we should use what we have better or on our own soil more often and gradually, more and more grow what we can ourselves relieves suffering to ourselves and others overall)... obviously not all $tates want this is another "onion skin of consideration" of which you might aim to <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/DIY\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>DIY</span></a> energy and reduce it yourself. </p><p>I know that sounds 'too <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/humanitarian\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>humanitarian</span></a>' but we have to do it for other <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/humans\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>humans</span></a> too else fall into the trap of doing it for the <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/money\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>money</span></a> / <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/banks\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>banks</span></a> / <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/state\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>state</span></a> control and trapping those that have lost control themselves completely. </p><p><a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/Hunting\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Hunting</span></a> money or buying into other people's way also has it problems feeding <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/profit\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>profit</span></a> into what seem a black hole for spending on oppression and <a href=\"https://qoto.org/tags/war\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>war</span></a>.</p><p>So that's why the 'best of worst scenarios' is to Do It Yourself while calculating / reducing / testing problems for a more educated pull of the switch (long-term - meaning many switches not just one trolley or train to think about for your life's quest!).</p>",
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