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Trolley Part One

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

A runaway trolley is hurtling down the railway tracks. Five people are tied up and unable to move on the tracks ahead. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull the lever, the trolley will switch to a side track. However, you notice that one person is tied up on the side track.

You have two options: (i) Do nothing and the trolley kills the five people on the main track. (ii) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track, which kills one person but saves five.

How will you proceed?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Then proceed to Trolley Part Two.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sorry havent read part 1 before

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

I have seen a meme on the internet where if you time it right by switching the lever back you can have the front wheels run over the group and the back wheels hit the one person.

Like a skid so to speak.

Anyway I digress. I would probably try and save the many and feel like I did my best knowing that my physical action killed someone but saved five. Where as inaction would have killed five.

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By *ack_at_the_farm....Man
over a year ago

woodhall spa

Pulling that lever

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

I'd kill the one to save the five, though that's probably not the right answer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd phone my uncle Andy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’d wonder how I got to The Wild West in 1892

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By *itzhallMan
over a year ago

birchington

Do nothing.... By the time you see the trolley then it's already too late for the group of five

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Do nothing.... By the time you see the trolley then it's already too late for the group of five "

It’s not too late, hence the choice.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"I’d wonder how I got to The Wild West in 1892"

Cos you've just had some Magic Mushrooms and are now part of a Loony Tunes cartoon

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By *itzhallMan
over a year ago

birchington

You are on ground level, in a rail yard your distance vision is limited therefore if it is travelling at speed by the time you see it then it's too late

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You are on ground level, in a rail yard your distance vision is limited therefore if it is travelling at speed by the time you see it then it's too late "

You’re still incorrect. It’s okay, inaction is a choice

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Could I phone a Friend?

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By *ubiousOatcakeMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

This is what happens when you bring an ethics thought exercise to Fab, Blanche.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This is what happens when you bring an ethics thought exercise to Fab, Blanche."

Carnage.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scouting for psychopaths?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Scouting for psychopaths? "

I’ve got their first album

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I’d wonder how I got to The Wild West in 1892"

Brilliant!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having also read part two before replying. I don’t think I’d want to cause someone to die, regardless of saving 5 others you’re still going to be the cause of a death. Wether that’s directing sacrificing someone or making a choice to switch the tracks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I could stop a supermarket trolley no sweat.

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