The Patrick Madrid Show: March 14, 2022 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
- The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures
- Pfizer CEO says a fourth booster shot 'is necessary'
- Peter - if someone is not living by Catholic teachings are you still a Catholic?
- Jim - What about dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima?
- Juliette - How is an ectopic pregnancy related to St Gianna's story?
- More Americans now see single motherhood, cohabitation as bad for society
- David - Truman never said he was wrong for dropping bomb since it ended the war
- John – President Truman at the time had the option for peaceful mediation but didn't do it, regarding Hiroshima
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.6 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.9 | All right, welcome back, and thanks for listening. The number is 888-914-9-149. 8-8-8-8-8-8-1-4-9-4-9-4-9-4. Have you ever heard of the trolley problem? |
| 0:32.2 | Trolley, like a T-R-O-L-L-E-Y, like you would ride in San Francisco, one of those trolleys? |
| 0:40.3 | Well, in 2014, |
| 0:48.3 | researchers at MIT, they designed an experiment called Moral Machine. The idea was to create a game platform that would crowdsource people's decisions on how self-driving cars should prioritize lives |
| 0:55.1 | in different variations of the trolley problem. Now, the trolley problem goes back quite a ways. |
| 1:00.6 | And the trolley problem is basically this. And this, by the way, is an article by technology |
| 1:04.8 | review. We'll have a link posted to this for you. It's an ethical dilemma, a moral dilemma. So here's the trolley problem. You see a runaway |
| 1:14.8 | trolley speeding down the tracks, and you can see that it's going to hit, and obviously it's going |
| 1:19.9 | to kill five people who are standing on the tracks. They don't see it coming. You are standing |
| 1:25.5 | right next to a lever that you can pull if you wish to that will switch the |
| 1:31.9 | trolley to a different track where a different person but only one is standing so your choices and |
| 1:38.4 | you only have a matter of seconds to make this decision if the if the trolley continues and on the that it's on, it will kill five people. |
| 1:46.8 | Inevitably, there's no chance that they're not going to, you know, that they're going to survive. |
| 1:52.0 | So you have an option. |
| 1:53.8 | You could allow it to happen by doing nothing, or you could pull the lever and it would divert |
| 1:59.4 | the trolley to the other track, in which case |
| 2:01.7 | the five people live and one other person will die. |
| 2:05.3 | Okay, so that's the dilemma. |
| 2:06.6 | What do you do? |
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