Trolley Dilemma

[Anonymous No.18416126]

What would anons on /lit/ do and why?

[Anonymous No.18416130]

>>18416126
Kill the lone guy because that'll get me the least amount of trouble.

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>>18416126
Try telling them to stop. Pulling the switch is a false choice. What position is it currently in? It goes there.

[Anonymous No.18416141]

>>18416126
Take the lonely one and tie it together with the group; proceed to kill all six.
>t. Benatar

[Anonymous No.18416149]

Nothing, it’s not my responsibility

[Anonymous No.18416151]

>>18416149
deranged psychopath

[Anonymous No.18416174]

>>18416126
The guys in the pic are not even tied, they're just lying and chilling there, looking at the clouds. Obviously they're committing a collective suicide, so I let the train run over five of them.

[Anonymous No.18416177]

>>18416126
Ask myself why so many people in this town are eager to meet their creator and not drink or eat anything until I am several hundred miles away

[Anonymous No.18416179]

>>18416151
cry

[Anonymous No.18416184]

Jump in front of the trolly to kms.

[Anonymous No.18416185]

Assuming they're all women in this hypothetical scenario (because as we all know from movie cliches that women are always getting themselves tied to train tracks), I would pull the lever to kill the 1 woman and then go over to the other 5 who are tied to track and rape them all. Unless of course the 1 girl is somehow hotter than the other 5, then I would kill the 5 and rape her. And we're not talking normal rape here, I'd shit and piss all over her. I'd wait there until she shits and eat that and then shit that into her mouth. Also I'm a 35 year old virgin does anybody have any advice to help me?

[Anonymous No.18416199]

[Anonymous No.18416201]

Pull and let the one guy die because then that's one guy dead instead of five guys dead. For me, if you have the chance to do this and don't, you are responsible for the death of those five men.

I think people are particularly drawn to this dilemma because it has no way out, no escaping the situation. Poor fella will be dead because I pulled it. That guy's family won't forgive me, I might face charges and everything. But the alternative is worse and I'd pull it anyway.

[Anonymous No.18416204]

>>18416126
All things being equal, the obvious choice would be to pull the lever, and the majority of philosophers and an overwhelming majority of regular people agree. But if the one person to the side was the person's family member, friend, or spouse not only would I not pull the lever, but I think it would be the unethical choice.

[Anonymous No.18416205]

>>18416201
The very nature of a dilemma is that there is no good solution. You're fucked either way

[Anonymous No.18416207]

>>18416126
Hop in front of the train

[Anonymous No.18416210]

One person dying instead of five is objectively worse. To me it's just a question of whether your conscience can handle that you were personally responsible for the one death. I'd pull the switch. It'd be tough on me at first but I can always justify it mentally, wouldn't keep me up at night.

Is this sociopathic of me or is there a completely different way anons view it? I think a lot of people are just scared of how others would perceive them if they said they'd pull the switch. Who knows

[Anonymous No.18416215]

>>18416210
Meant to say objectively better* kek I'm not a psycho

[Anonymous No.18416222]

[Anonymous No.18416224]

>>18416199
This shit is old as fuck and it still makes me chuckle every time.

[Anonymous No.18416237]

One must imagine the lever puller happy

[Anonymous No.18416239]

Does anyone else imagine the trolley going unbearably slow? Like there has to be enough time for you to grasp the entire situation and think through both sides as a time constraint is never included in the problem. I always imagined it was going slow enough that when it ran over one person it wouldn't be instant, but that it would slowly crush their arm before getting to their body and slowly cutting that into three pieces while the guy screams in absolute agony. The five-person one is sort of like a Saw trap where you can see and hear the people next to you slowly getting crushed by the trolley that's going to crush you. In this way the full weight of the decision is felt by everyone involved.

[Anonymous No.18416246]

>>18416126
I don't have the moral responsibility to intervene, and I'd be held liable for whatever death I cause by touching the lever, so I won't touch it.

[Anonymous No.18416249]

Would pulling the lever violate NAP?

[Anonymous No.18416253]

>>18416237
>let's just ignore the millions of deaths under communism

[Anonymous No.18416268]

>>18416237
>leftist trolley problem meme is a worse representation of capitalism than the fascist trolley problem meme
ironic

[Anonymous No.18416316]

>>18416126
Whenever you are in situations like this, you have been placed there by someone else to offload the responsibility onto you.
Best to run and give a good reason, or place someone else there.

[Anonymous No.18416320]

>>18416316
the someone is God the place is everywhere

[Anonymous No.18416325]

>>18416151
If they are tied to the train tracks they probably got there for a reason

[Anonymous No.18416337]

>>18416320
Give me an example where you are in such a dilemma through natural circumstances and God directly punishes you for the wrong decision.

[Anonymous No.18416340]

>>18416126
Don't interfere because it would mean I have to assign numeric value to human life thus degrading them to means to an end.

[Anonymous No.18416350]

I would administer a three part survey to all six people.
The first part would deal with objective qualities in an attempt to measure each person’s “worth” (i.e. level of education, health and diet, income, community service, number of dependents, etc) Also a basic 50-question IQ test.
The second part would be their psychological and spiritual profile. Have they made their peace with the universe? What do they believe awaits them in the afterlife? Are they happy / depressed? Do they need more time on earth to self-actualize?
The third part would be some mad libs to add some levity to the situation.
After the surveys are completed, the scores would be tallied. Of course the single person is at a natural disadvantage, so the scores are weighted such that each of the group of five essentially counts as one-fifth of a person. I know this seems harsh and dehumanizing but keep in mind only two or three of them have to be worth saving unless the single person is basically billionaire Jesus with a 160 IQ and the cure for cancer in his pocket.
In the event of an indecision, the audience will be polled (excluding any friends or relatives of the contestants). This is a meaningless gimmick to book-end a commercial break and the results mean nothing. The winner will be decided by a panel of expert judges with decades of experience in ethical and moral dilemmas: Jack Kevorkian, Philippe Petain and David Ross.
The winner (or winners) will go on to the semifinals where they will compete against the winners of the Stanford Prison Experiment in a no-holds-barred battle royale.

[Anonymous No.18416374]

>>18416126
Pull the lever just as the trolley is centered over the junction to see what happens

[Anonymous No.18416381]

>>18416350
good post

[Anonymous No.18416386]

>>18416374
The trolley derails and hits you.

[Anonymous No.18416425]

>>18416126
>>18416222

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

[Anonymous No.18416432]

>>18416130
Extremely underrated comment.

[Anonymous No.18416433]

>>18416253
Because those are the only two options

[Anonymous No.18416436]

>>18416325
Based slave

[Anonymous No.18416440]

>>18416126

[Anonymous No.18416443]

Well I wouldn't kill the lone guy. It's unlucky for the 4 people that are in the train tracks but the other guy doesn't deserve to die either.

[Anonymous No.18416450]

>>18416325
Based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.18416452]

What they don't tell you is that the game is rigged from the start. Do what you feel in the moment and reflect on the morality after.

[Anonymous No.18416465]

>>18416174
Perhaps the lone figure is the charismatic cult leader who smoothtalked those vulnerable people into a suicide-by-tram pact. Would it not be better to run over Jim Jones?

[Anonymous No.18416814]

>>18416452
No :3
>>18416440
No
>>18416268
Yes.
>>18416237
Don't touch that lever!

[Anonymous No.18416831]

Reminder that if you ever pose one of these scenarios or earnestly engage in it, you are, at best, a deranged retard and at worst, evil.