• uphillbothways@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Step in front of the train: Tell your manager this whole project is dumb, provide a list of reasons why it’s a bad idea and explain you are prepared to resign rather than enable its further development.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Half-pull the lever so that the points get stuck midway between the two tracks. That should derail the trolley. Someone could conceivably still get hurt, but it improves everyone’s chances.

    (What? You mean it isn’t a literal trolley that has to obey the laws of physics? Damn.)

  • kronkadoops@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Someone needs to stop tying people to those train tracks or this trolley problem will never go away.

  • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 years ago

    If we keep doubling, will I eventually be a person on the tracks? There are a finite number of people, so eventually I would be, right? So, passing the buck would be equivalent to handing my fate to a stranger.

    OTOH, if there are an infinite number of people, then this thought experiment is creating people out of thin air. Do these imaginary people’s rhetorical lives even matter?

    Either way, it seems better to kill 1 person at the start.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    If we all collectively agree to just pass it on, then either:

    • It’s infinite, and it just passes on forever, or…

    • It’s not infinite and somebody at the end has no choice, in which case nobody in charge of a lever has killed anyone

    So yeah, I say pass it on.

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Except that somewhere down that chain someone is almost certainly going to choose to kill people, so by passing the trolley on down to them you’re responsible for killing a lot more than if you ended it right now.

      And since every rational person down the line is going to think that, they’ll all be itching to pull the “kill” lever first chance they get. So you know that you need to pull the kill lever immediately to minimize the number of deaths.

      • Droechai@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 years ago

        Only the person pulling the lever is responsible for his/her action though. There is a difference between passively passing on and actively murder someone

        • roguetrick@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Dentological ethics: you have a duty to not murder people, so you don’t pull the lever

          Utilitarian ethics: pulling the lever will kill less people

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      This might cause a buffer overload that crashes the programming and we can escape the matrix together once and for all