The Trolley Dilemma

[Taciturn]

A trolley is careening out of control with a whole bunch of people inside. It's going to fly off an incomplete bridge unless you divert it with a lever.

If you divert the trolley, it will run over an innocent road worker, killing him.

Do you save the trolley or the guy?

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[The Resonte!]

[kongo]

how large far of a drop from the bridge is it

[Taciturn]

Enough to kill everybody in the trolley.

[shamester]

Shouldn't this go in forum games?

[The Resonte!]

Shouldn't this go in forum games?

it's a moral debate

[Path]

Obviously the trolley. Two lives are more precious than one. Also, i'm pretty sure if the worker guy could make the decision himself he would do it to save everyone else.

Shouldn't this go in forum games?

Not really its more of a question than a game

[fireking]

what's so difficult about this question

[Maxwell.]

looks like I'm pulling the lever

that bitch should've finished the bridge

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

have someone get the road worker away from the tracks and then pull the lever

[sir dooble]

what's so difficult about this question

You have to weigh 1 life against many. Which raises the question of just how do you value a life?

Also, the question is usually phrased to ask which is the more moral choice.
If you do nothing a large group of people die. But if you do something, while you save a lot of lives, you choose to kill a person.

Is it amoral to let people die if you have no responsibility? Is it even less moral to choose to kill an innocent man?

[shitlord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WX35MMg8g

[Drydess]

i throw myself under the wheels of the train to slow it down!!!!!

[The Murderous Cop]

better to save multiple lives than just 1

[PowerDag]

yell at the road worker while simultaneously pulling the lever