DC would not approve this script! # Script ## Roles 1. Lever person should be the same peron 2. Batman could even change between replics 3. Chill guy coild change between chapters (and doesn't have to be a guy) ------ ## Intro ### Option 1 Lever person alone at the scene Tram is moving at high speed **Lever person**: Oh no there is a trolley with broken breaks and it is going to roll over and kill 5 people tired to tracks! Lever person looks around **Lever person**: Look! There is a lever and I switch rails to a different track, but there is another person tired to tracks! What should I do? If I pull there will only 1 person dead instead of 5, but does it make me a killer? ### Option 2 **Passenger**: Oh no, there is a trolley with broken breaks and it is going to roll over and kill 5 people tired to track! Blue coat guy near the lever, pull it to change trolley to another track to save them! **Lever**: me? On it... But look! There is another person on another track! He will be killed if I do so.. ### Option 3 Lever is reading "Philosophy 101" book and there is a question... > There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options: > 1. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track. > 2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. >Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do? ### Option 4 Philosophy class on Zoom... **Professor**: Ok, now I will sign you into breakout zooms to discuss our classic trolley problem Break out zoom: Lever, Batman,... Long silence... **Lever**: I'm sorry for being late, I have problem with connection. What are we discussing? **Chill**: We are discussing, well, we should discuss about trolley problem. **Chill2**: What is that? Lever start reading... > There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options: > 1. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track. > 2. Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. >Which is the more ethical option? Or, more simply: What is the right thing to do? ## Kant (categorical imperative) Transition to Lever person **The Lever person**: We need an expert in solving these kinds ethical of problems: the Batman! Prepare the bat signal! The Batman enters the scene and starts speaking with "batman's voice" **The Batman**: Do not touch the lever **The Lever person**: why? **The Batman**: Because by doing so you will universalize the killing **The Lever person**: What? You will have to explain in more details **The Batman**: Rrr... OK! Batman coughs and starts speaking with a "normal voice" **The Batman**: Look, comparing to divine command theory we don't need any God to figure out what is moral, we only need our intellect to figure out universal moral laws that applied to everyone, commands that every human must follow, our moral obligations - Categorical Imperatives **The Lever person**: Ou, Kantian ethics! I think we studied something like this in a philosophy class **The Batman**: Categorical Imperatives can be understood in different variations. Kant came up with 4 formulations. We have time only for one. Universalizability principle: make only those actions that general rule that stands become that action can become a universal law that everyone should do in a similar situation. For example, if I decide to steal food from catering, then the general rule would be stealing and you essentially saying that everyone should always steal which cannot become a universal law because it would mean that catering should steal food back from you, and you from them and that forever. **The Lever person**: aha... Chill guy enters the scene **Chill guy**: I overheard your dialog and I have something to add. Chill guy shows sketch of husband murderer example **Chill guy**: Imagine this: The wife and husband are sitting in the kitchen when someone comes to the door, the wife opens the door and sees an armed guy, who says that he wants to kill the husband, the wife decided to lie and tell that the husband isn't there. The armed guy leaves and stumbles across the husband, who overheard the dialog and tried to escape through a window, The armed guy kills the husband. So by your reasoning... **The Batman**: The wife is responsible for the husband's death **Chill guy**: But how she can be responsible if she tried to save his life? **The Batman**: She universalize lying by doing this, meaning that everyone should always lie. **Chill guy**: Really? **The Batman**: What are you proposing? ## Utilitarians (act and rule) Transition to Batman and Chill guy **Chill guy**: Why you never paying attention to the consequences? You are refusing to kill the Joker although you were in the position to kill him a lot of times. Aren't you are responsible for the death that occurred because of Jocker's actions just a tiny bit? You knew that he would escape the Arkham and kill innocent people. **The Batman**: Utilitarism huh? **Chill guy**: Good consequences equal good actions. And a good consequence is to maximize the total happiness of all people. Produce the greatest good for the greatest number. And pulling the lever would mean that more people would go home today hence we have to pull it **The Batman**: No moral theory should force you to take someone's life **Chill guy**: If it produces the greatest good for the greatest number, it doesn't matter **The Batman**: Imagine this: You are a surgeon and you have 5 patients waiting for a transplant: 1 for heart, 1 for lungs, 2 for kidney, and 1 for liver, and you are sure that none of these would get their organs before all of them die. Also, he so happens to have a neighbor who has no family, total recluse, not a very nice guy; no one would miss him if he would disappear and he is a match for all 5 patients. **Chill guy**: Ok, I got you, act utilitarian should kill the neighbor and give organs to 5 patients. But act is about "greatest good for the greatest number". How about we switch to rule utilitarianism **The Batman**: heh **Chill guy**: Instead of making decisions each time how to make greatest good for greatest number right now, we should be more proactive and on a larger scale. We have to live by rules that in general are likely to lead to the greatest good for greatest number. Thus society, where innocent people can be taken from the street to be harvested for their organs, would have a lot less utility than in one where people don't have to live in constant fear. **The Batman**: so... **Chill guy**: You still have to kill the jocker and pull the lever **The Batman**: No! Lever person enters the scene **The Lever person**: have you decided yet? **Chill guy**: pull the lever! **The Lever person**: Understood! Pulling! Batman approaches Chill guy The camera faces the floor **Chill guy**: Violence is not an argument in the philosophical debate! Video suddenly ends