The Trolley Dilemma

[Taciturn]

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better to save multiple lives than just 1

What makes their lives more important than his?

Personally I'd let the trolley go

[Ad Bot]

[The Resonte!]

it depends on if the distance between the two tracks is wider than the length of the trolley

[Space1255]

Lets see, save one innocent life risking the deaths of many, or kill a single man to save many others... Hmmm...

I warn the road worker of what I'm doing and then pull the lever

Of course, that's only if the distance in the gap was too wide for the jump and really high from the ground / water

[Nonnel]

What makes their lives more important than his?

keyword: their
if every human life is worth an equal amount, then multiple lives are more valuable than a single life
thus a trolley full of people is worth saving over a road worker

[Drydess]

BUT
what if the road worker is your gf

[Space1255]

BUT
what if the road worker is your gf

Bummer.

[Nickpb 3.0]

Trick question you do neither and go buy a sandwich

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

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

alternatively, put a no trolleys allowed sign on the bridge
that'll stop them

[sir dooble]

Trick question you do neither and go buy a sandwich

It's impossible to do neither, as one of the options is literally "do nothing".

Going to get a sandwich means you decided not to save the lives of all the people on the train.

[weaver123]

I would sacrifice the road worker, then probably go home, get really drunk and cry in the shower.

[Otis Da HousKat]

Can I see the racial makeup of the trolley?

[Planr]

i save the worker cause its guaranteed he will die if i divert the trolley
you didnt say the people in the trolley would necessarily die if they went off the incomplete bridge

[The Resonte!]

you didnt say the people in the trolley would necessarily die if they went off the incomplete bridge

how large far of a drop from the bridge is it

Enough to kill everybody in the trolley.

[sir dooble]

i save the worker cause its guaranteed he will die if i divert the trolley
you didnt say the people in the trolley would necessarily die if they went off the incomplete bridge

That's a very optimistic view of trains versus falls you have.

[The Resonte!]

That's a very optimistic view of trains versus falls you have.

train vs fall
who wins