The trolley dilemma, what would you do?

[Samwise]

Imagine you are standing beside some tram tracks. In the distance, you spot a runaway trolley hurtling down the tracks towards five workers who cannot hear it coming. Even if they do spot it, they won’t be able to move out of the way in time.

As this disaster looms, you glance down and see a lever connected to the tracks. You realise that if you pull the lever, the tram will be diverted down a second set of tracks away from the five unsuspecting workers.

However, down this side track is one lone worker, just as oblivious as his colleagues.

So, would you pull the lever, leading to one death but saving five?

Options

1. Do nothing and hope for the best, though death of 5 people is very likely
2. Pull the lever to save 5, but kill 1

Also, lets say there's zero room for error and you do know whats happening, so you dont have to hesitate because you're not sure how it will go.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Do nothing, let Darwin take over.

[HarleyIsntReal]

Escrito originalmente por Samwise:

Escrito originalmente por Harley:

i'm making this wild!

*puts on biking helmet*

Ok, now im getting scared

good >:)

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

I would try to switch it as the trolley moves over the points to cause a derailment. At least the noise of that would alert the 6 people oblivious to the danger.

[GetToTheTop]

It'd be ironic if this thread got derailed since it's a trolley problem

[Kaylia MoonRaven]

Thing is no matter what u do its gonna affect someone, if u choose to let the 5 live, u might be killing 20 kids the other guy have because then theres noone to feed em.. and the 5 on the tracks could be old or already close to death because of some illness or something.. so tho it seems like the right thing to save 5, theres still info we dont know, if we should choose over life n death we need all info.. thats why we dont all have that option in daily life.

[Samwise]

Escrito originalmente por Todd Howard:

It'd be ironic if this thread got derailed since it's a trolley problem

Well, Harley already did, by planning to beat me up

[HarleyIsntReal]

Escrito originalmente por Samwise:

Escrito originalmente por Todd Howard:

It'd be ironic if this thread got derailed since it's a trolley problem

Well, Harley already did, by planning to beat me up

;)

[moon]

Jump inside the trolley & not care how it can roll down the train tracks

[Angel]

This sounds like a scene from The Good Place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWb_svTrcOg

[moon]

Escrito originalmente por Angel:

This sounds like a scene from The Good Place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWb_svTrcOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUsGDVOCLVQ

[idkyetok]

Intiate warp core ejection sequence and increase structural integrity to maximum

[Fellow_Gamer]

But what if along the track past the 1 person there is another 5 people stuck on the track?

[628]

3. Pull the lever "half" to make the trolley off the rail and kill everybody in the scene

[Grynn]

Ultimately I don’t think it matters, the workers will just be replaced with other workers, like ants... that said:

*flips coin*
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Though if I were feeling especially soulless that day I’d let the 5 workers die. TV ratings would be higher because of the higher death toll.

[Magma Dragoon]

A trolley is moving along a track. Five people are in its path and will die if you don't pull the switch lever. Nobody is on the other track, however the lever isn't your property and touching it would constitute violating the NAP. What do you do?