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A trolley problem
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2021-05-15 at 12:29 AM UTC
In case you haven't come across one of these before, a runaway trolley is heading down the tracks, and people are tied to the tracks. You cannot stop the trolley, but you find yourself at a switching lever, and so can choose which path it goes down.
Which do you choose? -
2021-05-15 at 1 AM UTCA
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2021-05-15 at 1:05 AM UTCOh no, who will the CCAs steal medication from? Who will televangelists prey on?
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2021-05-15 at 2:28 AM UTCMost people will lie and say of course i'd make the trolley kill person A. But Mindfield showed that most people will do jack shit. Not out of malice. Generally people just freeze. Never been in a situation like this so i don't know what i would do.
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2021-05-15 at 2:46 AM UTCbtw if you don't pull the lever then the world stops around you except you are still aging but you can not leave the switch so enjoy "freezing up" because lifes about to get very VERY boring.
i would speed-dial my buddy uncle and have him rewire the controls to reverse the motor: key being that like you said, the trolly never stopped well it wouldnt it would slam into reverse. PROBLEM: mistakes were made and the trolloley reverses in highspeed into a busfill of downright RETARDS ( googl bus holding about fiddy folx of various sexual disadvantages ) which erupts into catches on fire flames.
now you know that most of them wont make it out alive if you allow this TRAIN of thought to continue.. BUT you can still go back to the checkpoint and roll the dice (RTD) to see if you will be running over the kids or the geriatrics -
2021-05-15 at 2:48 AM UTCbut if you dont act fast more trolleys will be spawned into the track at high velocity
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2021-05-15 at 2:54 AM UTCThis was asked to me by a shrink.
Didn't answer. It's a trick. If you try to save a person and your actions save 4 people but kill one other who would not have died would possibly put you in jail or be sued regardless of good Samaritan law. So Don't fucking answer.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-05-15 at 2:08 PM UTCone person cant stop a train.
the bodies of a few dozen might produce enough friction to stop it.
whats my goal ? -
2021-05-15 at 2:12 PM UTCI would just let the trolley go whatever path it was going down originally and then I would pull the lever as it crushes people/person, wait until it stops and go back in reverse and finish off anyone leftThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-05-15 at 2:19 PM UTCShove the fat man.
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2021-05-15 at 2:25 PM UTC
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2021-05-15 at 2:34 PM UTC
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2021-05-15 at 2:42 PM UTCi would tie 9 people to the track with 1 person so there is no moral issue
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2021-05-15 at 8:19 PM UTCthe baby probably doesnt have a lot of money to sue you and the old people probably are 1%ers so
dont answer the question. it's loaded -
2024-03-01 at 12:41 AM UTC
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2024-03-01 at 2:17 AM UTCpart a: Throw the switch at the last moment in an attempt to cause a derail ( I don't care how many tries it takes, we ain't running out of TroyLees anytime soon ). I can do dis all DAY
part b: the TroyLee derails. I know what you're thinking: " I save money where I can! I don't go to Starbuck and I never set foot in Jacy Penny's. I do not eat abacodo toast I'm on the Dave Ramsey diet and drive a Honda and have married a battered school teacher( made her sign a prenup always make a bitch sign a prenup guys, be real, us men have to stick together ) we put her kids up for adoption and we share the household duties 50/50 she misses her children so you adopt a bunch of recycled shelter chihuahuas" to keep her stimulated
Part c: tje timing is impeccable : the TroyLee derails and enters a side-skid decapitating tje fat man and cutting the legs off all the bystandards.
part d:move the ass. This is the moment you have been training for. You deploy a mobile command center leveraging NFTs and large language models ( imagine a really fat woman in a bikini doing sign language ). At this point resources roll in el RAPIDO and you ultimately are awarded the metal of valor for your actions. You spin this into a tedtalking circuit and write a few books and live happy ever after
Part e: lanny ends up attending one of your Ted talks while wearing on of his UNIX GUY costumes and has a epiphany and ultimately goes on to deploy the most stable server package he has ever deployedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-03-01 at 2:26 AM UTCI'm an anti-natalist and I think overpopulation is a thing, so the answer is easy. I'll go with the highest kill count.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-03-01 at 2:26 AM UTCaaron bushnell choosed to set himself on fire to shine a light on this problem.
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2024-03-01 at 2:42 AM UTCThe way you phrased the problem is not the whole story though. It leaves out the bit that if the bystander doesn't intervene the train will run over the larger group of people. so it is a different scenario (logically it is the same but there are more elements to consider than just logic. Otherwise the problem wouldn't exist) then simply being presented with a choice like "either group a or group b dies and you pick which one"
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2024-03-01 at 2:46 AM UTC
Originally posted by EduCaTional CATastropHE The way you phrased the problem is not the whole story though. It leaves out the bit that if the bystander doesn't intervene the train will run over the larger group of people. so it is a different scenario (logically it is the same but there are more elements to consider than just logic. Otherwise the problem wouldn't exist) then simply being presented with a choice like "either group a or group b dies and you pick which one"
Classic thing at a workplace, if you touch it you own it.
Like better just to pretend not to notice, or to rush out and pretend not to be able to understand the lever.
That's something they don't teach you at college.
But for this exercise, imagine the lever is set to A, you run along and set it to B.
No matter what you do, you're going to be in trouble.
You touched it and changed it, now whatever outcome happens is your fault.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
