Sounds like your typical game theory problem.
Not pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: None
Pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: Your loved ones survives
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Throw the trolley off the side of the ferry.
and here. we. go
"What's with all the chickens, foxes, and cabbages?"
you find some third way thats not the bad outcomes that are suggested. Theres always possibilities in life and people who say there are not are generally trying to coerce you.
pull my gun, kill the other person and move the lever, as far i can know that person is the one this whole thing upfamily up
Veritasium did a great video on the prisoners dilemma... What Game Theory Reveals about Life, The Universe, and Everything Prof. Robert Axelrod held a tournament in 1980 to produce a computer program to explore the prisoners dilemma... Axelrod's Tournament
I think the premise falls apart on the assumption that I consider pulling the lever as best case.
Yeah, it would be more interesting if the middle track were empty.
Goddamn it, Joker
Nuke it from orbit.
👍 It's the only way to be sure
I would tie a really really long string to the lever and attach the string to a large bird and then scare it into flying away. Then I would eat some delicious Heinz Baked Beans
Yell to the other lever dude that I'm not pulling the lever but fuck those beige dudes, hope they can't tell i'm lying, run and lay down with the beige dudes, and if I'm lucky they pull their lever too and we get maximum carnage. If lever dude suspects I'm lying and insane, and thus doesn't pull their lever, at least I won't have to answer my loved ones' questions.
And where are their arms and legs?
amputee representation. don't make it weird.
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Jokes on you, No loved ones, so who cares if you pull the lever or not, go have a frothy instead.
looking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems
i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams
What do I do? I introduce myself to the other person, then we go out for drinks, then we fuck all night.
We no longer give a shit about the assholes on the tracks.
Give the loved ones guns
Philosphers really just go "imagine how fucked up it would be if..." and then take it incredibly seriously
easy pull both levers
Please learn how to draw basic sketches of railway switches. It's not that hard.
The last line of these is always what the poster wants to happen
everything else is skewed rationale to make you think it is a funny
it is, in reality, anti-intellectual propaganda
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