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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And the solution to the trolley problem is obviously to stop the trolley from running over anyone. Thank you for solving this philosophical problem.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The trolley problem, where the person who is a murderer is the lever puller rather than whoever tied people to the tracks in the first place.

I think people are abusing that thought experiment a bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The people tied on the track-thing is somewhat new, the original was with a runaway trolley and workers on either track.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Wouldnt it still ultimately be someone's responsibility they were there with no way to get out, or negligence?

[–] sandbox -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This isn’t a philosophical thought experiment. If there was a real life trolley problem, the solution is to find a way to stop the fucking train, isn’t it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

the solution is to find a way to stop the fucking train

And the solution to the electoral college is to just fucking abolish it? I didn't know it was this easy! Surely any second the system decides to abolish itself! Any second now...

Unless you abolish the system before the November election, either Trump or Harris will become US president. It is mathematical certainty in the same way that neither Harris nor Trump will be teleported to Mars through spontaneous quantum tunneling.