![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, constructing a training scenario where you’re thinking that far downstream might not translate well to an hour-long captain’s chair simulation for a cadet (or for a gripping opening to the best major motion picture in the Star Trek franchise). Indeed, most of the time good ethical decision-making before there’s a crisis can bring good consequences all around, heading off a moment downstream where you have to choose which stakeholder gets stuck with a dramatically bad outcome. Not every ethical decision requires grappling with a dilemma. ![]() This framing is what spawns trolley problems, which seem not to do much to help develop the ethical toolbox that gets us through the routine ethical decision-making essential to captaining a starship or living a good humanoid life. There’s a way in which the Kobayashi Maru echoes the framing of ethical training as a matter of grappling with ethical dilemmas - with situations where your task is to choose the least bad of two bad options. ![]()
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