Scenario:
>A trolley is heading down the track towards five strangers who are bound to the track
>You are bound to the other track with access to the lever
>If you pull the lever, the trolley will switch to your track, killing you but saving the five strangers
>If you do not pull the lever, the five will die but you will be spared
>Despite having a free hand you may not escape from bondage
What would you do?
Also, general Trolley Problem thread.
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let them die. I care way too much about myself to let myself die. plus overpopulation
Sooooo John Stuart Mill thread?
Go down my path.
Basically
Let them die. I was expecting this to be a riddle or puzzle of some sort.
LETS GO
nice digits
Fap so that everyone sees pull lever and kill my self. then the others will be discussed and kill themselves saving everyone. Because this earth is fuck anyway do to the civil war that is about to happen
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Fuck anyway do to
Fucked* sorry spell check
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It depends, if there was a single gay person in the group of five people I would just watch. It's their fault for being associated.
anyone who tells you they'd pull the lever is full of shit.
Accurate
you must have a very sad life if you believe that not one person would make that choice
Would you?
pull the lever.
entirely depends on who the other 5 are
5 strangers it says
Strangers to love?
i love my life very much which is why i would never give it up without a fight. i'm just being honest with myself, give it a go sometime.
What kind of question is this? There could be 30 women and children on the other track and id make it go there lane
>i'm just being honest with myself, give it a go sometime.
confirms your sad view of people. can't blame you though and i'm not even mad.
nigga I would literally let every other human in the world die before me
I am that important to me
go back to /lit/
ultimately, i probably wouldn't. doesn't mean there aren't people who are selfless or pathetic enough to do so
don't assume to know me based off 2 comments on an anonymous forum, champione
Definitly this!
Why should I care about some strangers? There are literally 7 billion people on earth
You reek of arrogance
I think the problem that is presented.. if you were one of the 5 strangers. Why the fuck should he pull the lever, there are literally 7 billion people in the world!
>don't do what i just did
Anyone have the post just like this but instead of you being tied up, your dick is stuck in the track lol
doesn't matter who is on the other rail
or how many
or even if I need to actively or passively cause the trolley to run them over
if the alternate is my death I'd wipe out the entire human race
never knew Sup Forums to be this selfish
ha
just like daddy used to tell me
Kek, this.
this
Exactly, why would he?
He has no reason to do so.
All those pseudo-philisophical and hypothetical scenarios suck donkey dick
You faggots are forgetting suicidal fucks. this scenario just makes it convenient for them
Real life isnt like fucking batman. People have an overwhelming urge to live, its what made every one of their ancestors kill, escape, lie and fuck their way to making you. Id let the 5 fuckers die, then i'd steal valuables off their corpses.
>implying all lives are equal
What if these individuals have decided to not work and gain social benefits?
There aren't enough suicidal fucks to have an impact in this scenario.
And if we say the guy at the lever is suicidal then con-fucking-gratulation! He just saved 5 people
let the trolley kill me man, win win.
I'd end it
Kill them obviously
I don't think I could pass up an opportunity to kill myself like that
Radiolab did an awesome episode about this.
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Unless it meant killing 5 others maybe. There are too many people in this world
I want to say that I would save the group, but I would most likely pussy out, live with awful guilt, and an hero myself within 10 years.
but if you die you don't have to worry about it
> Given choice to save yourself or others
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> Fuckit, you're all coming with me
while the trolley is going over the switchable length of the track pull the lever so as to derail it.
Ideally I'd go with multitrackdrifting.jpg
save myself and then continue to kill more people as a hobby
Obviously wait to the last second and pull the lever while the trolley is on the switch point so it de-rails saving us all. duh