The Trolley Problem in Land of Birch · 5:44pm Jul 4th, 2022
Imagine yourself living in the Land of Birch now. You're against the war, but you're powerless to stop it. You're, for example, a neurosurgeon. And you own clinic that makes neurosurgery.
You have old mom, young wife and two kids. Also, you have a full clinic of personnel that works for you, trusts you, people that you painstakingly collected through years, the best medics, the best people, non-toxic, professional, working together just great, all friends.
And now, imagine. Your clinic's work is not cheap for patients, so either they are rich, or desperate, and often both.
And you don't know the way to distinguish the ones that are innocent from the corrupt ones that have war blood on their money.
What would you do? Close the clinic so you wouldn't accidentally treat warmongers, or keep clinic open so you could treat innocent, and also feed your family and team and yourself?
What if you're not neurosurgeon, but farmer, and make food? Food is important for everyone, for rich and a poor, for warmongers and for innocent.
Or someone else with vitally important job?
Would you stop doing your job to stop war sooner (but you, your family and part of your friends will die or will be arrested and tortured and killed in jail), or continue doing it and let innocent people on the other side of the border be killed?
