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.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i like this opinion "well, your honor. I wanted to fuck around and find out, and i found out."

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

well, to be clear, you weren't forced to choose, you were presented with an option to make a choice, you could've just left it alone.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

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?"

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hack into the trolley controls the day before, got it.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Derailing the trolley kills the 10 passengers aboard

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

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