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eg, 'Trolley Problem'; ‘Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.’ But the real aim of the trolley problem is to assess whether people would take one unpleasant action for the greater good.
relate to optimisation qv ‘Utility Function’
Should all human lives be considered to have equal value? Rapists? Elderly? Those with poor quality of life? Those who provide little benefit to society? Those who detract from society? [irrelevant? a question for priorities qv?]
How do we balance value of a human life cf. non-human or inanimate? Is there any fundamental benefit to diversity (instinct qv, optimisation qv)?
The axes in system-dynamics diagrams don't mean anything, whereas the past-now-future diagram at least has a time axis. Maybe what we need is a higher-dimensional system-dynamics diagram that has meaningful axes; eg, representing time and space (in additional to linkage between effects). There may be more dimensions too: probability? consequences? alternative decisions? Maybe we need a series of different views of the same model (inspired by MVM, UML).