if a locomotive is hurtling towards a trio of men tied to the track and you have the ability to divert it onto a section of track upon which a single man is bound should you do it
Watch three men die or kill one man?
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Change its
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Leave it be
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You can't put any stipulations of emotions or knowledge of the people that kind of ruins it.
I think a funnier one would be, You are shot back in time before hitler came to power with your father, bestfriend and a stranger. You are put in the same situation the three people tied together is hitler, your father, best friend then the one alone is the stranger
but 1 of those 3 people kissed your mother on the lips
now decide
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Oh yeah, regarding the actual topic of the thread, my choice would depend on the people involved. A single death close to the heart hurts more than a million deaths on the other side of the world.
Thanks i'll read it, but what i was trying to say was coming from this quote: “Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.” -Albert Einstein. Life as we know it is immeasurable and we humans lack the faculties to understand some things. I don't think you can say 3 lives are more important or more valuable than 1 life because there are too many things involved.
Here's a funny thought. Is one infinity bigger than another and can you really say infinity times 3 is bigger than infinity or is the end result simply infinity. See where i'm going with this?
Belovedprincess, I think your answer is code for, "I'd be at a loss and do nothing, thus letting three idiots die when I could have killed one idiot instead, which is mathematically the more moral thing to do."
Speaking of math, some people are really bad at it. I think it's society's fault. (I could mention overpopulation here, but I have a feeling someone would take me seriously, so I'm typing this sentence instead.)
In all seriousness my first answer is definitely "I'd change it," but then again, I have vegged in games before because I took too long to vote on lylo.
This hypothetical is lopsided. We need a new b.s. abstract conundrum. plz & ty
the only constant factor in the situation is yourself, so you should just do whatever makes yourself feel satisfied
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Would that single man's mother's grief be lesser than those three other men's mothers' grief?
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My answer is that I would never be in this situation, and so I don't need an answer, and can go on not being insane.
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Don't attempt to evaluate the lives of strangers, it will only serve to drive you insane. Haven't any of you seen the Dark Knight--the boat full of cons vs. the boat full of 'decent' people? Pray to Batman, or God, or someone.