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[Anonymous No.7928268]

What is the correct answer to the trolley problem?

[Anonymous No.7928270]

>>7928268
jus b urself

[Anonymous No.7928273]

>>7928270
^

[Anonymous No.7929533]

Someone please post the image

[Anonymous No.7929567]

>>7928268
>Trolley problem
>correct answer
pick one

[Anonymous No.7929595]

>>7929567
>Reply
Seeing as consequentialism is correct, the answer is obvious.

[Anonymous No.7929616]

>>7928268
Genius pic senpai

[Anonymous No.7929621]

>>7929567

>"Well, you know that the purest morality comes when an action is done with pure intent, hugh. Any decision will be right based on your will."

>"Oh, hi Mark. isn't philosophy cool huuugh."

[Anonymous No.7929730]

>>7928270
underrated

[Anonymous No.7929735]

[Anonymous No.7929747]

[Anonymous No.7929771]

You close your eyes and imagine yourself on a lovely tropical island.

[Anonymous No.7929786]

I think the trolley problem is easy. You go ahead pull the switch. If I were the man tied to a railroad track, I would accept my death as consequence of saving more people. So I hope if I were pulling the switch, the man on the tracks would have that same mindset. I think a harder problem is if the only way to stop the trolley were to push another bystander in front of it. In that case, the loss of human life is the same, but pushing a man into a trolley seems so much worse. Why can I rationalize one but not the other?

[Anonymous No.7929793]

>>7929595
end justifies the means

[Anonymous No.7929807]

>>7929786
>If I were the man tied to a railroad track, I would accept my death as consequence of saving more people.
These words mean pretty much nothing coming from someone who's not tied on a railroad track.

[Anonymous No.7929816]

Yeah, that's a good book

[Anonymous No.7929847]

>>7929786
>I think a harder problem is if the only way to stop the trolley were to push another bystander in front of it. In that case, the loss of human life is the same, but pushing a man into a trolley seems so much worse. Why can I rationalize one but not the other?
Why wouldn't you just jump in front of the trolley yourself, then?

[Anonymous No.7929858]

Multitrack drifting

[Anonymous No.7929867]

It doesn't even matter.

[Anonymous No.7929882]

>>7929847
What if I'm too much of a skinny twink and the train would just run right over me like a fly?

[Anonymous No.7929904]

the correct answer

[Anonymous No.7929913]

>>7929904
I would let her pull my lever

[Anonymous No.7930091]

[Anonymous No.7930122]

get on the tracks

[Anonymous No.7930155]

>>7928268
The correct answer is not to switch.
You have a much higher chance of ridding the world of another feminist that way.

[Anonymous No.7930163]

>>7929747
Illustrates the problem differently but efficiently. Choosing Lane A saves more people = less people dead = more people happy = """righteous""""" choice.

[Anonymous No.7930199]

>>7928268
mocking laughter

[Anonymous No.7930216]

I've thought about it a lot actually and I've come to the conclusion that not pulling it is correct.
You can tell from the fact that they're alive and clothed that they're not willing to give up their lives or even their wealth to help many others (eg organ donation, money to charity) so why would any one of them have the right to ask a single person to sacrifice his life for the greater good?
The best you can hope for in a society which commends and allows self protection is punishment for whomever tied them up.

[Anonymous No.7930219]

>>7930155

Sorry you're not getting laid.

[OWK !gUKG.L2ZM2 No.7930228]

>>7929747
The same number of people die either way if that track extends indefinitely, because a subset of an infinite set is also infinite. This is why it's okay to kill anyone.

[Anonymous No.7930229]

>>7930163
What if you impose manifold horrors on the survivors leaving them forever crippled by their traumatic memories? Wouldn't going for the tracks with more bodies decrease the overall unhappiness? Even better try some multi track drifting.

[Anonymous No.7930252]

Pull that mothafucking trolley switch.
I'm not gonna let 5-1 peeples die.

[Anonymous No.7930267]

>>7928268
answer is kill fat people.

[Anonymous No.7930380]

>>7930091
The one on the top right is a legitimately interesting modification

[Anonymous No.7930385]

>>7928268
That there's no answer, it trascends human thought so it would be foolish to try to give a correct answer.

t.Generic chinese philosopher

[Anonymous No.7930388]

>>7930229
Sure, if you value death over unhappiness.

[Anonymous No.7930392]

>>7930385
Bull freakin' shiz.

[Anonymous No.7930393]

>>7928268
Choose the option that kills less ammount of people, it's the logical choice.

[Anonymous No.7930426]

>>7928270
this to be honest family

[Anonymous No.7930524]

What economic incentive is there to pull/ not pull ?(I'm a Libertarian)

[Anonymous No.7930534]

>>7930524
i guess it depends if u a capitalist or a proletarian...if u pull and the five dudes get squished the labor supply is reduced putting upward pressure on wages, so if u are a worker u want the most carnage possible, but of u are a capitalist u want the fewest deaths so u can have more workers for less cost...kind of weird how that works out

[Anonymous No.7930548]

trolleyposting is my favorite

[Anonymous No.7930572]

>>7930534
For the purposes of this bit, I am a bitter satire of a Libertarian who doesn't care about the greater good and is only interested in my own short term gain. I guess saving five people would distribute the possibility of a reward better. But I don't want to perform labior for free if I am not certain that I will be remunerated in kind. I think I will destroy the tracks in a Ayn Randian gesture of defiance, the people tied to the tracks are parasites dragging me down, bro.

[Anonymous No.7930580]

The trolley question is the ultimate spook-revealer

Of course you pull it so it switches to the line with 2 guys

[Anonymous No.7930587]

extra credit: do u give the death penalty to the guy who tied them up and put them on tracks?

[Anonymous No.7930588]

don't touch the lever and walk away. I refuse to assume responsiblity over this event

[Anonymous No.7930595]

>>7930588
irl if i saw that i'd call the cops and hope the 911 operator tells me to wait for the police, like when someone falls in the subway tracks in nyc, do u risk ur life to pull them up or like come up with an excuse not help