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If you have more trolley problem memes, please post them in the comments!
Mar 28, 2022 8:15 AM
hydroelectricglower
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If you have more trolley problem memes, please post them in the comments!
NotTinyPancakes
Leave Chidi alone
ruferto
#3 there's only one guy smiling in this one...
gablestout
JimboTCB
You can stop the trolley at any time, but doing so would be unfair to the people it has already run over.
alsoAzrael
Ooh, this one is too real.
butthurtnevergetsbetter
#4 is attacking the right people.
michealangleo
#2 i thought these were supposed to be hypothetical in nature
DrKonrad
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
I just want to point out they also changed his frown into a smile. That is all.
JohnPtempkinReborn
kahooki
Also cropped it but checked comments before posting. This is just too good and will be one of my new fav pics around here.
gablestout
TheDiscoVampire
badatediting
skincancerisfun
WeylandYutaniCorp
If you pull the lever, you nuke the site from orbit, but you're just a grunt, no offense, you can't make that kind of decision.
erinaceus
if you are donald trump, you point out that the trolley is beautiful, it's a beautiful trolley, and that its speed is tremendous,
erinaceus
that we've never seen a trolley go so fast before, and you take no responsibility for the problem,
erinaceus
and the people asking questions about it are nasty,
erinaceus
and the problem will go away when the weather gets warm, like a miracle, it will just disappear.
ruferto
you know what i'm about ...
Michelicorne
where is this beauty coming from ?
badatediting
badatediting
badatediting
badatediting
CobainsSarcoma
#10 yes
mikhailblk
Saw this while watching the trolley problem episode of The Good Place! I think there's a glitch in the simulation..
RelevantForOnce
Logrydan
You are a professor for moral philosophy. No one is in any danger. Do you tie people in front of a trolley to justify your profession?
RideTheStimutacs
"Hello, students. I'd like to play a game."
ProfessorVanDiggenSagg
StrangerRangerDanger
SalmonTheWise
Malloon
Why does their profession need to be justified?
ruint
it might usually be written in large print
Arcanum3000
They don't have tenure.
JackieTreehornProductions
because we're running the utilitarian model simulation
Kodaxmax
Every proffession has to be justified. Why would anyone want to work in or support one that can't?
ProfessorVanDiggenSagg
Economics profs be like
Malloon
What do you consider appropriate justification, then?
Kodaxmax
i feel like that's a big question for 100 characters. If it benefits anyone
lostharbinger42
I pull out the lever, throw it in the tracks and derail the trolley, killing everyone in the children's hospital that it crashes into
MantisTobagganMD
Ah, the Avengers Method
Schtschtscht
Putin wants to know your location
Jukeratzu
With a job offer
thatlamer
Putin has sent you a text message: У нас закончились генералы, вы наняты.
SpecialContainmentProcedures
#8 feels a lot like politics in a consumer-capitalist society...
ImNotRacistBut
It's a critique of the 2-party system in America. Biden holding a memorial for 400k covid deaths, but nothing when approaching a million.
SpecialContainmentProcedures
Biden at least brought back and listened to the CDC diseases task force
ImNotRacistBut
You're proving the point of the meme.
SpecialContainmentProcedures
I'm not Mr. Party allegience. In fact I used to be "red." But at the moment, one is clearly much worse than the other.
PeaceBaby
DickMercenary
#8 Don't pull the lever. Red ones go faster so it'll be over quicker.
SaveTheHVClockTower
BeerAndChips
#11 I like this one.
METROlD
SOCIALISM
Pheehelm
YouTubeRed
kingoftheironislands
HelplessRomantic
good one
speedhandle
Just slow it down. I’ll shoot hitler out the window.
SergeiBoobtitsky
Darn! I hit Eleanor Roosevelt by mistake.
LizardEnterprises
Kill the ten Hitlers with the train. Then, hop off the train, find one hitlers severed limb, and beat the living hitler to death with it.
Bakerysnake
I mean by the time you stop the train after hitting ten of them what if that one Hitler runs away? You have to some how multitrack drift it.
LizardEnterprises
Im in pretty bad shape... but so was hitler. I bet I could outrun him if his life depended on it.
LizardEnterprises
Also they are tied down, which makes it a lot easier.
DirtyWolfy
ProxyPlayerHD
is misread the last part of that sentence and thought it said "and beat the living hitler out of hitler"
SpaceSphere
That works too
Naitasm
Beat the shitler out of hitler
LiarLiarPantsUntier
The last one is by far the most unrealistic one.
MacAwesome
Im missing the thoughts and prayers version
qyrriqat
Illithidbane
Baskerville84
KiLLeRdAcKeL
Yes.
Kodaxmax
Wait, thats cheating.
CrapOnASpatula
Though titled ship of Theseus, the description says 'a replacement part', doesn't specify the correct part. Could render it nonfunctioning.
whatsisname
love it
Primary1
Id say yes because i still directed it, even if the final result isnt piece for piece the literal same trolley
Probablyimaginary
Like if I murdered a person today, 7 years from now am I still a murderer? My cells have been replaced...
Primary1
Obviously... thats why i said yes in my example
Probablyimaginary
Obviously... I was agreeing with you. Have an absurd day friend!
Primary1
Sorry, i qas downvoted and thought it was you
ekzeko
Your action killed the man, but perhaps not this particular trolley. This thinks it's a Ship of Theseus subversion, but it's actually a -
Finlandery
Not really, since if it falls of from tracks, someone else builds it back and lift it back to tracks
ekzeko
Thats the same as a ball falling off your rube goldberg machine and somebody putting it back on. My point stands.
Nonada
If the ball falls off the Rube Goldberg machine, then the machine failed and its completion is now the fault of whoever corrected it.
ekzeko
Same in the case of the trolley falling off the rails and somebody putting it back on. It wasn't part of the hypothetical regardless.
ekzeko
Rube goldbergification.
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
I need to google this term
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
zero rezults
Natdictit
Rube Goldberg was known for making complex machines that did a simple thing via a series of moving parts
Phlynch
If you switch the track you didn't kill anyone. A thousand mile stretch of track is more than enough for the crew of the trolley to 1/
OphelianAshe
If you switch the track, a man dies. Whether the trolley mechanics are culpable or not, you made the decision to kill a man.
Phlynch
No, you made the decision to give the experts on the trolley the time to save a man. It isn't your fault if they waste that time instead.
OphelianAshe
i mean, if you don't pull the lever, they have even more time. Pulling the lever gives them a deadline, pun intended
Phlynch
No if you don't pull the lever the trolley crushes the guy right at the front of the track. Pulling the lever moves it to a new track 1/2
Phlynch
regain control of the vehicle. If they choose to use that time replacing all the pieces of the trolley instead then any deaths caused by 2/
Phlynch
the trolley are now the fault of the trolley operators. 3/3
Prowler2142
Yeah this, you created an opportunity for the experts to do their job.
StagBullSwitch
Especially since, instead of replacing the wheels, they could just remove them, stopping the trolley....heh heh...in its tracks.
aShogunNamedMarcus
Most trolleys can only take so much human viscera in their wheels before derailing (in my experience)
Crase155
Hold on chief. Your experience?
HenryLongfellowIII
That's why Jeremiah Throckmorton of Redding, United Kingdom patented the self-cleaning tram wheel in 1873.
baggypants12000
Redding in Falkirk, Scotland? Did he drink at The Quoit?
irvingb01
#4 "Covfefe" may not have a translation in my language, but I'll bet that all the words in its definition do.
emberfish
Covfefe (n) - 1) Nirt vor conag hiore var zedspukum. 2) Speglingem, freendoet.
irvingb01
language *and concepts* they couldn't figure out. So my answer to #4
is screw linguistic determinism.
emberfish
Blengbeko vief “linguistic determinism” fefefefefe. Techo covfefe poi
irvingb01
Okay, but that would imply an entire, if smaller, secondary language
with no overlap with English. And even if that was the case, I'm >>
irvingb01
doubtful that it would be impossible for me to learn that language; I
don't think humans have ever encountered a living culture whose >>
ButtAmbassador
Isn’t that just Dutch?
emberfish
Neg lesteo durna
Cabreza
If you multi-track drift the trolly in #1 can you kill more than an infinite number of people and break the universe?
matthew2401360
I think option A is more humane, because the trolley is able to maintain a higher rate of travel and you don't have to be close to people.
RussianMathNinja
Addition of infinite cardinalities is really boring: it is just the maximum of the two. So the multi-track drift kills the same number 1/?
RussianMathNinja
of people as just taking the bottom track. 2/2
IronicDancing
The concept of one infinity being "bigger" or "greater" than another one isn't useful. Think of it as being a denser infinity.
kahooki
Maybe this one helps a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvOZm0d4H0 - There are other (even better) explanations, but NP is quite good.
omenrose
LoopStricken
I think you just end up killing infinity people faster.
ketzu
If you multi-track drift you kill the same number of people as if you did nothing, so go ahead!
PhobianDarkmoon
No, you'd just kill a larger infinity of people
herperderp
No, you wouldn't. It would be equal to the number killed on the bottom track alone.
RussianMathNinja
Oddly enough, it would not be a *larger* infinity in this case.
photoshopbot01
Infinity is an unending sequence, not a large number. You can, however, kill people at a faster rate.
herperderp
Actually, the rates are equal whether you take the bottom track or multi-track drift.
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
There are different sized infinities though. Countable and uncountable infinities. For example, counting by ones to infinity is a -/
MyWifeIsActuallyAHat
It might be more accurate to refer to them as different "types" of infinity rather than size as it doesn't *really* mean size
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
An infinity. When you add in every possible decimal, there is an infinity of numbers between zero and one, so you'd never be able to reach-/
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
The number one. Then, there's an infinite number of numbers between one and two. This is an uncountable infinity, because you can count -/
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
Forever and never really progress. Math is weird. \-
ErectileFunction
2x∞=∞, so you can kill twice the people without killing any more.
Jafarce
No you still kill an infinite amount more, it's just not quantifiable.
Bukulu
Mathematicians got really lazy when they hit infinity
DrArsMoriendi
My old physics teacher used to draw stuff, and infinity was usually a marked spot on the map. Led to fun questions such as "Is it there
DrArsMoriendi
where parallel lines meet?"
Winterturtle
This is required for certain rigorous math systems. It makes sense to include, though it is usually omitted for simplicity. Cool he drew it!
TwoFlower68
"lazy"... George Cantor would like to have a word
brianglass10
Did mathematicians disprove the “different sizes of infinity” sets” thing a while back?
RussianMathNinja
...No? The only thing that I can think of that might be remotely related would be results around the continuum hypothesis.
popejubal
Nope. There are absolutely different sizes of infinity. Including countable and uncountable and many others beyond that.
TwoFlower68
I'm just an interested layman, but I don't think so? That stuff is pretty well established. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
dgtlrift
#7
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
That was a fun reference. Though time travel makes it how it could happen confusing. how did the confeds handle the whale probe?
LoopStricken
Why doesn't Guinan recognise Picard when they met in the Mark Twain era? Never mind her appearance.
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
recasting is cheaper than CGI deaging Whoopi. Maybe Time's Arrow didn't happen in the new timeline but that raises a lot of questions /1
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
/2 about how altered timelines work in regards to other time travel stories. Maybe they will explain it but probably not.
irvingb01
I get the reference, but I don't know what movie or tv show is presenting it.
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
latest episode of Star Trek Picard has a callback to The Voyage Home were Spock nerve pinches the loud punk on the bus. Seven is on a bus/1
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
/2 with maybe the same punk. He turns down when asked to while rubbing his neck, implying he's flashing back to TVH as well.
navyjeff
Fun fact: Kirk Thatcher was a producer for ST4, and also wrote and performed the music he was playing on the bus.
PiercedViking
Yep, they got the same actor from tVH, Kirk Thatcher.
irvingb01
Thank you. Investigating further, I see that the IMDb says that it *is* the same actor, Kirk Thatcher.
SirRichfield
TVtropes says it's even the same actor...