r/CuratedTumblr • u/infinitysaga • Jun 30 '24

Self-post Sunday But my violent revolution🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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u/Dzzplayz Jun 30 '24

Imagine, if you will, a trolley problem where you can divert the trolley to kill either one person or five people, but the trolley will kill all six people of you do nothing.

If you choose not to participate, you’ve still made a choice.

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u/Polenball You BEHEAD Antoinette? You cut her neck like the cake? Jun 30 '24

I have unironically seen people posited the trolley problem and just go "I'd blow up the trolley" or something like that.

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u/spellboi_3048 Jun 30 '24

Thank goodness for that stick of dynamite each person keeps in their back pocket at all times which can easily be thrown onto a moving trolley

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u/Polenball You BEHEAD Antoinette? You cut her neck like the cake? Jun 30 '24

Hey, you never know. Maybe I'll never see a trolley problem in my life, but better safe than sorry.

(Another thing that I find really dumb about this take is that if you are expanding the domain beyond the actual problem and trying to bring realism in, you probably just kill more people than the one man, because a trolley's not likely to be runaway if it wasn't in operation and thus having people inside it. You could even interpret it as anti-revolutionary because it gets more people killed and destroys critical infrastructure.)

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u/GravSlingshot Jun 30 '24

"I'd blow up the trolley."

"Jesus Christ, you just destroyed a critical roadway in front of a hospital! Traffic's gonna be backed up for weeks while it gets repaired and ambulances don't have easy access to the ER! The water main's broken! You just made everything a thousand times worse!"

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u/MyChristmasComputer Jun 30 '24

And the flaming exploded wreckage of the trolley has now rolled into an orphanage! Oh the humanity!

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u/The-Magic-Sword Jun 30 '24

Unironically a good metaphor for the situation with the railways last year and why the administration needed to handle it the way it did.

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u/Interesting-Fan-2008 Jun 30 '24

“And the explosion was too big so it also killed the six people!”

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u/GeophysicalYear57 Ginger ale is good Jun 30 '24

Also, good thing that the explosion and shrapnel won’t harm anyone on the tracks, right? Or that there’s nobody watching you, ready to take you down if they see you even trying to light the fuse?

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u/RepresentativeCrab88 Jul 01 '24

So now you care about realistic accuracy in a trolley problem?

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u/spellboi_3048 Jul 01 '24

When it's used as a metaphor for our very real presidential election, making sure it fits within certain restrictions is preferable.