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3 Mar 2023

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Read the trolly problem’s summary then answer the four questions:

Summary:

Thought experiments are imagined cases that we can use to aid our reasoning about moral theories and principles. One of the most famous thought experiments, popularized in the 1970s, is the trolley problem': Imagine that the driver of a trolley has passed out at the wheel, and his trolley is hurtling out of control down the track.Straight ahead are five people on the track. They are in a narrow pass and cannot escape in time. If the trolley reaches them, they will surely be villed.Fortunately, you are standing next to a lever,which you can pull in order to send the trolley down a side-track.however you realize that a single person is on the side-track, also unable to escape. Pulling the lever will save the five people on the main track but will result in the death of the single person on the side-track. Time is running out. You ask yourself: should i pull the lever?” The trolly problem has been criticized by some for being too silly and unrealistic to help us understand real world moral problems. However I thought experiment has received renewed attention due to developments and self -driving vehicle technology. There are parallels between the dilemma posed by the trolley problem and real-life situations that self driving cars should pose. for example, a drive this car may need to decide what to do, if faced with a choice between colliding with another vehicle or a swerving into a crowd of people.Engineers may need to decide how to program self driving cars to behave in these life -and -death situations.

Questions:

1. What is your response to the trolley problem? Are you morally permitted to pull the lever? Are you morally required to pull it? Defend your answers.

2. How should engineers program self-driving cars to behave in scenarios like the trolley problem?

3. There is a variant of the trolley problem that asks you to imagine that you are standing on the footbridge, looking down as a trolley hurtles towards the five people tied to the track. An extremely large man is standing next to you on the bridge. If you push him off the bridge, his large body will stop the trolley. The large man will be killed, but the five people tied to the track will be saved what is the morally right thing to do in this case , and why? if it’s wrong to push the large man, is it also wrong to pull the lever?

4. Do you think though experiments like the trolley problem can help us understand the nature of morality? Why or why not? 

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24 Feb 2023

Please help asap read the Social Media summary and then answer the questions:

It seemed that Essena O'Neill had the perfect life. In 2015, the eighteen-year-old Australian model and vegan advocate had over a half million followers on the social media platform Instagram. O'Neill found that she was able to make an income by marketing products to her social media followers, sometimes earning as much as $2,000 for a single post. O'Neill was young and beautiful, and many of her Instagram posts featured images of her smiling

In October 2015, O'Neill publicly disavowed her Instagram persona. She explained that she had spent her teenage years addicted to social media and seeking social approval: "I spent hours watching perfect girls online, wishing I was them. Then I was 'one of them.' I still wasn't happy, content or at peace with myself." O'Neill revealed the lengths to which she would go in order to get the right pose for her next Instagram photo, sometimes sucking in her stomach to appear extremely thin. She would obsessively check the number of "likes" she got on her photos. O'Neill described the insecurity behind her Instagram persona, saying that "I just want young girls to know this isn't candid life, or cool or inspirational. It's contrived perfection made to get attention." There is a growing body of research looking at whether social media is making us unhappy. A recent study found that the more you use Facebook over time, "the more likely you are to expe-nience negative physical health, negative mental health and negative life satisfaction." A 2017 study of eighteen- to twenty-two-year-olds found an association between time spent on social media and "anxiety symptoms and the greater likelihood of an anxiety disorder." Some people believe that quitting social media might also improve your mood

Questions

Does social media give us a distorted view of what constitutes a good life, or what it looks like for someone's life to go well?

Would a hedonist think there is anything wrong with extensively using social media? Why or why not?

3. According to the desire satisfaction theory, is there anything wrong with extensively using social media? Why or why not?

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