The Train Problem

[CatParty]

thomas would know what to do

 

[Judge Holden]

thomas would know what to do

*thinks cat party is talking bout him before realising he is just talking about the tank engine

Personally I try to be as coldly pragmatic as I can about hypothetical issues like this so I would likely flick the switch since choosing to do nothing would still be choosing for 5 people to die rather than 1

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I burst out laughing when I read this....

...I'm a horrible human being. :?

 

[Holdek]

thomas would know what to do

*thinks cat party is talking bout him before realising he is just talking about the tank engine

Personally I try to be as coldly pragmatic as I can about hypothetical issues like this so I would likely flick the switch since choosing to do nothing would still be choosing for 5 people to die rather than 1

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." Spock

 

[Drawets Rednaxela]

Replace that one guy with CWC and the train problem becomes the train solution. XD

 

[exball]

Replace that one guy with CWC and the train problem becomes the train solution. XD

 

[The Hunter]

Replace that one guy with CWC and the train problem becomes the train solution. XD

Christ, Mew, at least try if you're gonna ban evade.

 

[Picklepower]

Replace that one guy with Deeker and the train problem becomes the train solution. XD

Fixed.

 

[Holdek]

Replace that one guy with CWC and the train problem becomes the train solution. XD

Christ, Mew, at least try if you're gonna ban evade.

I think that might actually be Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto trying to ban evade.

 

[spaps]

thomas would know what to do

 

[Picklepower]

Someone needs to make the text in the Thomas pic, "I got your train problem right here bitch!"

 

[pickles]

I was listening to a podcast today and they were discussing a sort of morality puzzle they referred to as The Train/Trolley Problem.

Scenario: You are on a train that is headed towards five people tied to the track. You cannot stop the train, but you can throw a switch which diverts the train's path. This will send you down a track where one person is tied to the track. Simply put, you have the option of doing nothing and killing five people, or taking action and killing one person. What do you do?

Throw the switch halfway, jump out of the train, nail the fork head-on, everybody lives.

Then you kill the people on the train.

 

[exball]

I was listening to a podcast today and they were discussing a sort of morality puzzle they referred to as The Train/Trolley Problem.

Scenario: You are on a train that is headed towards five people tied to the track. You cannot stop the train, but you can throw a switch which diverts the train's path. This will send you down a track where one person is tied to the track. Simply put, you have the option of doing nothing and killing five people, or taking action and killing one person. What do you do?

Throw the switch halfway, jump out of the train, nail the fork head-on, everybody lives.

Then you kill the people on the train.

It's a free for all by then.

 

[Uzumaki]

Usually in this thought experiment the one person is related to you in some way, or is your friend. Otherwise it's a pretty easy choice unless you care way more about the "letter" of moral law than the spirit.