• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    This has always been my option. Derail the train, if there is a moral choice it is to do everything you can to stop the trolley and failing that is the only guiltless choice.

    If you tried a third option over the two choices given then you can’t feel guilty if the third option doesn’t work.

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        7 months ago

        If I was forced to chose between one life or five lives, I chose the possibility of property damage.

        Edit: I added the word If, which I missed originally.

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            7 months ago

            Oops I missed the word If at the beginning of my comment.

            I shall fix it, I guess derailing the train is the fourth option, standing by and doing nothing is the third option.

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              Who is forcing you? Now im even more fucking confused? What kind of trolley problem is this.

              “if you were standing at the rail switch of a trolly heading towards 4 people, and flipping the switch would divert it killing 1 person. But there was a person behind you holding a gun to your head, telling you to switch it, would you switch it?”

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        As passengers their families would be given insurance payouts by the train company so that would be fine.