• aviationeast
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    1313 hours ago

    Questions: why doesn’t the person at the switch run and get the person off the tracks? And the people on the trolley hop off or try to the sslow the trolley?

    • Vivian
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      1812 hours ago

      They are tied to their chair with the only thing they can do being flipping the lever. It is the prisoner’s trolley problem

    • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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      28 hours ago

      something something about conservation of momentum, them jumping off speeds up the trolley

    • @actually
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      -712 hours ago

      I think this exposes the sadism of philosophy the past few hundred years.

      Often, it’s been some rich idle folks making up murderous fantasies in their heads while looking down at my ancestors . “Oh, you don’t know page 273 of Aristotle’s rejoinder? Haha, you must be too poor”.