moral-dilemmas
Original: moral-dilemmas on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with curly dark hair, round glasses, and a purple shirt stands at the front of a classroom holding a piece of chalk near a green chalkboard.
Woman: "Suppose you want to kill a baker. But, if you kill him, a bunch of starving people will get access to his bread. Should you do it anyway?"
Caption (below panel): All moral dilemmas can be rephrased as evil-maximization problems.
Votey:
A close-up of the same woman's face, eyes closed, in a hand-drawn style.
Woman: "Suppose you're in a trolley. What's the greatest number of people you can kill."
A woman with curly dark hair, round glasses, and a purple shirt stands at the front of a classroom holding a piece of chalk near a green chalkboard.
Woman: "Suppose you want to kill a baker. But, if you kill him, a bunch of starving people will get access to his bread. Should you do it anyway?"
Caption (below panel): All moral dilemmas can be rephrased as evil-maximization problems.
Votey:
A close-up of the same woman's face, eyes closed, in a hand-drawn style.
Woman: "Suppose you're in a trolley. What's the greatest number of people you can kill."
Alt text
A woman with curly dark hair, round glasses, and a purple shirt stands at a green chalkboard holding chalk, posing a question: "Suppose you want to kill a baker. But, if you kill him, a bunch of starving people will get access to his bread. Should you do it anyway?" A caption below reads: "All moral dilemmas can be rephrased as evil-maximization problems." In the votey, a close-up sketch of the same woman with her eyes closed says: "Suppose you're in a trolley. What's the greatest number of people you can kill." The joke inverts familiar ethics thought experiments so each one optimizes for maximum harm instead of minimizing it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.