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minus-squareSibshops@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up64·4 days agoHonestly I would. Like I wouldn’t hesitate to kill patient zero of a world ending disease.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·4 days agoBut then it isn’t a world ending desease, you just killed somebody
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up18·4 days agoThe use of a time machine is implied in these situations
minus-squarebampop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 days agoKill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure
minus-squareZoteTheMighty@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·4 days agoIf you killed patient 0, then it wasn’t a world ending disease either.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoThe logic that nobody would ever die as long as nobody ever pulls falls through when you realize after 33 cycles you’re risking the entire human population on the whims of a stranger and that irrational actors will always exist. It becomes not if but when.
minus-squareDaftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agoMaybe a world ending disease is the cure… just looking around.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThis guy is the perfect example of why we cannot trust somebody won’t pull the lever.
minus-squareDaftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoYoure right but for the wrong reason. Id pull it thinking it was going one way and it would go the other.
Honestly I would. Like I wouldn’t hesitate to kill patient zero of a world ending disease.
But then it isn’t a world ending desease, you just killed somebody
The use of a time machine is implied in these situations
Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure
If you killed patient 0, then it wasn’t a world ending disease either.
The logic that nobody would ever die as long as nobody ever pulls falls through when you realize after 33 cycles you’re risking the entire human population on the whims of a stranger and that irrational actors will always exist.
It becomes not if but when.
Maybe a world ending disease is the cure… just looking around.
This guy is the perfect example of why we cannot trust somebody won’t pull the lever.
Youre right but for the wrong reason. Id pull it thinking it was going one way and it would go the other.