Well?

Numerologically the correct answer is to pull and observe

>>6538659
But morals aren't objective, Mr. Harris.

>>6538653
>>6538659

I thought the same thing, it's just one life extra on you if the outcome is unfavorable, and you may save 4. It's a gambit well worth taking.

You'll save 7 people if you don't pull the lever, but if you DO pull the lever, you have an equal chance of saving either 6 or 11 people.

So.....what is the question, exactly?

>>6538668
Don't pull the lever

>>6538670
Why so many people hate B and want him to die

>>6538675
So there's a good chance that A will pull the leaver and kill 9 people. Good job.

>>6538678
My choice just proved that he won't

>>6538668
Pull the lever is the correct choice. unless the bunch on rail C looks to be a bunch of hardcore offenders of somekind.

What happens if the lever is pulled twice?

>>6538685
The sequence {1/2^n} never reaches 0.

>>6538685
IS this Zeno's or are the train actually slowing down per fixed unit time?

>>6538684
The train derails and kills you and everyone on board instead.

>>6538685
>he doesn't know the universe is finite

>the train is traveling the speed of light
>you are inside the train with the lever

>>6538692
On that note why didn't Zeno's paradox lead to the discovery of calculus and instantaneous velocity in ancient times?

I don't understand this.

It says if you don't pull the lever, it will stay on track C which implies that regardless, it will kill the people on that line. So then why do you need to "observe" it? It's already established where it will go isn't it?

Objectively speaking, I'd probably just pull it and "observe" if it meant I was going to learn something from it. From a subjective moral position, I'd probably just let it run on C as the combination of A and B is a total of lives saved greater than C. That is, of course, if it never runs the full length of C in which event, I don't understand a) why they are tied up and b) it's a smaller number but it's still a guaranteed number of lives saved.

>>6538703
>greater than C

Preposterous! nothing can be greater than C anon.

how can my eyes be real if this is real

>>6538697
The train would be moving infinitely fast from your perspective within the train, so there is no moral dillema