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The trolley problem is a more common case of moral decision making as it has a simple premise and raises many philosophical questions.
The modern trolley problem has its origins from Philipa Foots paper on the doctrine of double effect. Foot shows how this idea can relate to modern ideas as well as cricize.
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Foot argues that we imagine we are the driver of the trolley, based on whether we will chose one worker or the other workers. Foot argues that it would be permissible for him to drive from the five people versus the one.
However she contrasts this to a judge who kills a man in front of a mob, who threatens to hang multiple people. Foot argues that this action is permissible.
The doctrine of double effects argues although the trolley driver does not want to kill the one person but does so to save the other people, however the girl decides that the man is still guilty and wants to kill that person.
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We think somethings are the way htey are,because of collective free choice when in fact one or two people alone made a decision and made something that is taken for granted as part of society and part of life.
Edward bernays was credited of public relations, where many people could be manipulated through news and media. He took advantage of mass media, not to inform but to control. In 1920 Ed Bernays argued whether a breakfast should be heavy or light, and the doctor believed that the breakfast should be heavy, and so he got other doctors to ask whether they believed with that argument.
bernays lobbied to newspapers to say that doctors had believed that heavy breakfasts were important for the public health of the American people. However he wasn't trying to get the information out for public health but because a bacon company had told him to do so.
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The trolley problem is not just a test for utilitarianism but to look at relevant information there can be other than consequences
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