A) That’s not the question. The question said “regardless of pay.” So we can imagine you get paid $500m. It doesn’t have to be realistic. That’s the point of a hypothetical.
B) If that’s the case, you need to work on your impulse control. In our hypothetical scenario, you would be sacrificing the political change you could create with your salary for the short term satisfaction of hurting someone else. It’s a bit of a trolley problem - but then, the point of trolly problems is to get us to grapple with our ethical assumptions.
A) they wouldn’t. B) I’d still end up in jail for attacking another agent.
A) That’s not the question. The question said “regardless of pay.” So we can imagine you get paid $500m. It doesn’t have to be realistic. That’s the point of a hypothetical.
B) If that’s the case, you need to work on your impulse control. In our hypothetical scenario, you would be sacrificing the political change you could create with your salary for the short term satisfaction of hurting someone else. It’s a bit of a trolley problem - but then, the point of trolly problems is to get us to grapple with our ethical assumptions.