• @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      That unfortunately means you have to shoot a lot of people. Trolley problems are everywhere. They just arent as obvios as pulling a lever. But your political and consumer behaviour are full of trolley problems.

      So you can either pull the trigger and shoot a lot of people, which will make you a murderer, or, if you dont, through your inactions, a lot of other people will have to suffer through hidden trolley problems. Your choice.

    • swim
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      Why open carry and telegraph your capabilities? Just shoot them from a concealed carry position. Maybe you just learned the term and wanted to use it in a sentence.

  • aviationeast
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    Questions: why doesn’t the person at the switch run and get the person off the tracks? And the people on the trolley hop off or try to the sslow the trolley?

    • LousyCornMuffins
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      something something about conservation of momentum, them jumping off speeds up the trolley

    • @[email protected]
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      I think this exposes the sadism of philosophy the past few hundred years.

      Often, it’s been some rich idle folks making up murderous fantasies in their heads while looking down at my ancestors . “Oh, you don’t know page 273 of Aristotle’s rejoinder? Haha, you must be too poor”.

    • Vivian
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      They are tied to their chair with the only thing they can do being flipping the lever. It is the prisoner’s trolley problem

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    I would tie a really really long string to the lever and attach the string to a large bird and then scare it into flying away. Then I would eat some delicious Heinz Baked Beans

  • Blackout
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    If these are tracks in the US then I just understaff the engineers and maintenance teams and the train derails before I have to make a decision, checkmate.

    • matlag
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      If these tracks are in the US, so I am. So I shoot the other guy with the gun(s) I usually carry around when I go out and then pull the lever.

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    I think the premise falls apart on the assumption that I consider pulling the lever as best case.

  • EleventhHour
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    What do I do? I introduce myself to the other person, then we go out for drinks, then we fuck all night.

    We no longer give a shit about the assholes on the tracks.

    • @[email protected]
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      This was super funny, this person has a great career ahead of her. Very Tim and Eric style obscure indie comedy, I loved it.