This is the second of fourteen trolley problem memes I saved a decade ago. There’s another batch down the line from a month or so after that.
People over profit? In this economy?
This is the second of fourteen trolley problem memes I saved a decade ago. There’s another batch down the line from a month or so after that.
29 Comments
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 81d
Yes you are obligated.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 21 pts · 81d
Also to kill the patent owners
homes@piefed.world · 23 pts · 81d
Or, are you in fact obligated to lead a popular revolt, burn the corporate headquarters down, and assassinate the CEO so that nobody else’s wife gets run over by trolleys? Then take over the trolley system and turn it into scalable public transit funded by the taxes of billionaires.
Think big
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 81d
"Guys, we need to band together and do a popular revolution to save my wife!"
"Fuck you, I'm not sticking my neck out just because you lost the Omelas Lottery"
"Well, then I'm going in solo"
"You'll only make things worse!"
CptInsane0@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 81d
"we need to put together a committee so we can write a tweet that condemns, blasts, and slams, and then we vote to give more money to the private company for security because someone keeps blowing up their level fortresses."
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 81d
But in the short term, I suggest breaking in asap
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 2 pts · 81d
Taxes implies they're still alive use pillaged loot instead
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 80d
Most of the money is virtual, and vanishes with their shitty companies. They buy mansions with bank loans that are based on the imaginary collateral and some sort of assumption the billionaires will pay them back someday.
I’m pretty sure that’s what’s really keeping the system in place.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 1 pts · 80d
Money has always been fake pure abstraction the difference between a coin and a poker chip is how cool it is
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 81d
Nah, I'm just finding a log and derailing the trolley.
Might set it on fire too.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 77d
I was thinking that too. Would you derail the trolly if was faster than paying the 200$ you don't have
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 77d
I would derail the trolley if someone else had to pay money they didn't have.
And set it on fire too.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 76d
Lol, I was thinking you'd derail the trolly just to save your wife and you wouldn't care about who got killed or injured in the derailment
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 76d
Hmm, good point, might be easier to kill the trolley driver.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 76d
Lol do you as a trolly driver take action to pull if there was a 50/50 probability of saving 5 lives
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 76d
Trolley driver will be one of:
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 81d
Break in, pull the lever, light the building on fire, derail the trolley
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 5 pts · 81d
Okay we don't need to be doing violence against innocent trains here
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 81d
I'm assuming here that if the lever is privatized, the only occupants of the train are exceedingly wealthy. It's a shame for the train, but seems a worthy sacrifice.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 3 pts · 80d
Okay guilty trains can be destroyed it will be mourned I'm so upset right now how could a train go so bad
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 80d
There are no bad trains, only bad passengers.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 1 pts · 80d
Is it worth killing a train to kill the passengers then the ends don't justify the means can't we just use nerve gas or shoot them up or something or pull them out bodily and take them apart at a hospital and donate all their organs without anesthetic and exterminate their lines without hurting any innocent little trolleys
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 81d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 81d
Censored guns? Haven't seen that before.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 81d
Ahh the Heinz dilemma!! Nothing to do with ketchup, but used in Kholbergs Stages of Moral Development or something like that. Except it was a medicine that could cure your sick wife.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 80d
Ha the obligation to steal thought experiment. Usually it's with medicine and a sick wife. It's really funny somone made it into a trolley problem
Baggie@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 80d
Ooh I actually like this one. Yeah fuck em, break in.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 80d
You are, in fact, also morally obliged to find where the owner of the company lives and to tie THEM to some tracks. No lever required.
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 81d
Breaking in and taking anyone out who tries to stop me