You are in a trolly speeding toward 5 people

[teguh123]

You have a choice.

You can hit all those 5 people and kill them, or you can turn the wheel and kill just 1 guy.

What would you do?

 

[drave]

jump out.

 

[teguh123]

jump out.

So that means option 3 right?

 

[lose lose win]

Where's the option for this poll is fucking retarded?

 

[SirKonstantine]

Are the 5 people hot?

 

[thelorax]

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[dmnEPC]

posting in a teguh thread.

btw would only kill the one person. Its the lesser of all the evils. Besides if you hit all 5 there is a much higher chance that a stray body part could come flying into the trolly and hitting you in the testicles, therefore actually reducing your chances of reproductive success. In the mean time it would also be reducing the number of lawsuits from 5 to 0 if you actually kill (possibly choking if still alive) the 1 guy instead of simply injuring him and guaranteeing a lawsuit

 

[drave]

1) i'd promise everyone i would stop the trolley
2) i'd let the trolley plow down everyone
3) i'd blame the deaths on the fact that the trolley was already moving before i tried to stop it
4) i'd run for re-election

 

[smacker]

Is the trolly full of unpaid groceries and the five people are store security? STE...RIKE.

 

[cougarclaws]

Get Jolly. Bang Trolley.

 

[MyOwnDemon]

 

[stack paper]

^^^^ LMAO

 

[medicalhumor]

Who the fuck rides in a trolly?

 

[Bofu2U]

 

[music4mic]

Who the fuck rides in a trolly?

 

[teguh123]

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort … is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. – Ayn Rand

Sorry Ayn, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence is exactly what all society is.

How do you add option to the poll anyway?

 

[dchuk]

welcome to day 1 of studying anything John Stuart Mill ever wrote. There is no right answer, it's dependent on your own ethical framework

 

[mikeshinobi]

I don't see the difficulty of the question. Killing one person is "less bad" than killing 5 people. Aren't you supposed to make it to where it's something like killing a bus full of prisoners vs. an innocent baby?

 

[lukep]

Someone please tell me how the option "Whichever will maximize your reproductive success" is even possible to know in this scenario??

Classic teggy.

 

[JoseArmando]

I don't see the difficulty of the question. Killing one person is "less bad" than killing 5 people. Aren't you supposed to make it to where it's something like killing a bus full of prisoners vs. an innocent baby?

I also thought it's as simple as that but there are two options:
- you don't do anything and can therefore absolve yourself of any guilt
- you consciously kill that other person and are therefore quantifying that 5 people>1 person which is in itself a dangerous path of thinking

Why can the second be dangerous? Is it moral to test a new vaccine on 100 people and definitely kill at least a few of them in the process to save millions?

What about killing 1000 to save a 2000? Where's the line?