Deep question that has been debated through the ages.
A train is running down the track. Do you leave it be and kill one person, or pull the lever and kill three?
Put a block on the tracks to derail it and possibly kill or save everyone
fucking original text n shit
Surely it would be a harder question if the numbers were reversed?
As it is it seems pretty simple?
>move the lever so the train goes into the single person lane
>just before it hits him press 69 on my detonator
>blow everyone up including myself and the cargo of anime figures
>>29809809
I see, chaotic neutral.
>implying I wouldn't lie down on the tracks in front of him
>>29809788
Easy question. Leave it be so you don't get blamed
"Accidentally" falling over and pretending you got hurt would help too
>Feeling guilt
Idgaf, and don't partain guilt for others actions
I don't want any person who clearly murders having a motive to do the same to me, or shall he have a gun, kill all of us
>>29809815
But what if the one person on the bottom track was a murderer and the three people on the top one were cancer researchers?
>>29809809
derailing the train would kill the passengers
the correct answer is do nothing
or
try to move the single person so that he passes between the wheels of the train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeKML8o5QEU
>>29809890
>derailing the train would kill the passengers
Not to mention millions of dollars in damage that could be blamed upon you; all to save what? Some random fuck you don't know?
Let the fucker die I'd say
>>29809890
That doesn't work for all trains, a lot have cattle pushers and/or machinery-type-stuff that goes almost down to the track. Which means the guy would avoid getting fucked by the wheels but would be mincemeat anyway
I can't answer this question without knowing the races involved.
>>29809968
Look at the picture. They are all pasty Irishmen.
Jump in front of the train
kill myself of course
isn't this backwards? isn't it that the train will kill 3 people and you have to decide to swap it to the 1? either way i'd pull it to kill the 3.
>>29809882
That makes it even easier.
Do you mean the other way around?
I'm pretty sure the dilemma is supposed to come from the train going for the 3 people by default, and turning towards one if you pull the lever.
You're killing less, but the death is objectively your fault
>>29810006
What if the person on the bottom track was going to die that day anyway, regardless of whether the train hits him or not?
I know this question is supposed to be philosophical and have some deeper meaning. But I have never seen or heard a good explanation. I think this type of shit is normie tier philosophy.
We were asked this in a university lecture many years ago when I attended. Of course everyone said that they would save the few and kill the fewer. Except one arab. He went on to explain the nature of genocide and that's why he would kill the higher number. What an edge lord
How can anyone not pull the lever, saving the three guys?
It's either kill one or three, whether you pulled the lever or not, you still consciously made the decision to NOT pull the lever, killing 3 people.
>>29810037
And thats where the debate lies. Can we kill by ommission as well as commission.
For instance if a man told you that he did not save a dying child from drowning because he was wearing a thousand dollar suit then you would think that was bad. But if instead of buying expensive clothing most people could be happy with simple cheaper clothes and donate the spare money to charity that would in turn save childrens lives.
>>29809788
>not going for the highscore
casuals
>>29810027
Liberalism is a mental illness, nowhere is this better highlighted than in the degenerate 'philosophy' of utilitarianism. They're all a bunch of antisocial control freaks.
It depends, if one of the three people is one of my major enemies than I'll kill the other two just to get them.
>>29809788
Leave it, I do not hold the power to decide who lives and who dies, I do not take life away. The only situation in which I would pull the lever would be if the person tied asked me for it
>>29810206
>major enemies
Are you in middle school?
>>29809788
I would not be in this situation.
>>29809890
Didn't say anything about being a passenger train but even so, my answer stands let providence decide live or die withers fine with me
>>29809828
Pretty much this good and evil are easy mode
>>29810223
>Hey, you mind pulling that lever, buddy? Y'know, if it's no trouble. I hate to bother you, but I'm gonna get hit by that train.
>>29810196
Fuck off /pol/
Robot, bless me with originality
>>29810094
What about urgency? The drowning child is seconds away from death
>pick up and move 1 guy onto other track
>pull lever
>lay down with other 4 guys
>NEW HIGH SCORE ACHIEVED
>>29810257
lo sentimos no habla ingles
>>29810260
Fuck off, rebbit. Maybe if you weren't such a shitty poster you wouldn't have to violate board rules just to get your shit posts to appear. Why don't you go back, no robot to deal with and you get karmaboats.
>>29810257
You know I meant if the guy asked to be sacrificed, then it would be his Choice, same if the three people asked to get killed for him.
A better situation would be a Batman dilemma where two people are going to die but you can only save one and saving neither means they both die
>>29810292
Por favor presiona el burrito de tren
walk away and go home
>>29810310
2easy, I save the one that most looks like me.
>>29810335
What if they both look like you?
>>29809788
Kill one person
A little trickier one.
What now, robots?
>>29810298
How about you fuck off back to your mom's vagina nerd
>>29810358
what kind of sick psychopath would give up on dat loop?
>>29810358
Shit, now this is a tough one. On the one hand you can save five lives, but on the other you won't see a train do a loop.
>>29810298
>>29810359
Fuck both of you, stupid cunts. I hope they stick nails in one of your cocks and then make you rape the other one until you both die.
>>29810345
You mean like twins? I guess it wouldn't matter, I'd eenie meenie it.
>>29810359
I would but I'm still wore out from your mom's vag.
>>29810411
How about I put nails in your butt until you die instead? Then I'll fuck your mom too.
>>29810236
I envy anyone who hasn't had such a terrible encounter with a person, to consider them an enemy.
>>29809788
without knowing who these people are the only decision I can make is to make no decision.
>>29810491
that doesn't mean you escape moral responsibility
nice try though
>>29810491
You can't opt out of making a decision. Making the decision to not make a decision is still making a decision.
>>29810562
What if I just forget what's going on with the railroad and the lever and everything and I wander somewhere else?
>>29809788
Pull the lever, then stab the one guy to death
>>29810273
Wtf
Original commento
>>29811409
Maybe you could tear the lever off and stab the guy with it.
>>29809788
>A train is running down the track. Do you leave it be and kill one person, or pull the lever and kill three?
holy shit you fucking morons you can't even get the setup right or even neutral
it's "let three persons die" or "kill one"
>>29810018
kek when will they learn?
>>29809788
I don't know, maybe cut off the single person's ropes?
