“Would you kill 1 person or double it and give it to the next person?” Looks like if we all do nothing the trolley will just keep rolling without incident. We should all knock off, untie everyone, and go have lunch.
This gives the 17th person the chance to murder 65536 people.
Yes, I do know by memory the powers of 2 up to 216And the 35th or so can kill the whole world.
We will get to a psycho person eventually. Best to kill the 1.
The real question is what happens at the end? Assume every person is in line to deal with the trolley. What happens after everyone has had the chance to pass? If there’s no next person to pass it to, does the last person not get a choice?
Though that’s overthinking it a bit:
Of course at some point there will be a crazy person who would be like “lol let’s kill everyone” and odds are this crazy person will be after it has passed the 33 or so people it will take for the number to get past the population of the world. So with the existence of crazy people in mind, yeah kill the 1.
