The ‘Trolley Problem’, The Famous Philosophy Thought Experiment, May Be Bogus

Daniel Engber: “Scientists use versions of the kill-one-to-save-five hypothetical, reworded and reframed for added nuance, as a standard way to probe the workings of the moral mind. … But if the answers to those questions don’t connect to real behavior” – and some new research indicates that they don’t – “then where, exactly, have these trolley problems taken us?”