How the covid-19 pandemic has presented policymakers

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Once you have finished the reading for the week you can head to the discussion board and answer the following questions:

1. Explain how the Covid-19 pandemic has presented policymakers with the same choices as the Trolley Problem. (It might be helpful to reconsider how the self-driving car scenario was related to the Trolley Problem in our text."

2. In one reformulation of the trolley problem the individual on the track is the lever changer's daughter, in another reformulation, the lever is exchanged for the act of pushing an individual (a fat man) on to the track. Explain how these formulations change the moral principles (e.g. consequentialism or deontology) used to reason about the answer to the problem.

3. Who would be responsible for a fatal accident in the event that a self-driving car injures someone because it made a decision based upon a moral algorithm? The driver? The car company? Nobody? Why?

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