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

Except you're not passing a machete to Jason Voorhees. That would be "double it and pass it to the next person who you know is going to pull the lever."

You're passing a machete to the next person in line. You don't know who that is. They may or may not pass the machete down the line. Considering I would not expect a person chosen at random to kill someone when handed a machete, it seems unethical for me to kill someone with a machete just to prevent handing it to someone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know Jason is somewhere down that line I'm handing the machete off to. And the farther down the line he is the more people he's going to kill.

[–] simplecyphers 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are only 33 people in the line though.

Either you get to 33 and there are no more and the track just ends or it’s “nuke the planet” or dont for everyone else above 33.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or it keeps doubling even well after its surpassed the human population, and we all have to keep hitting "pass" in turns forever, and if even a single person gives up then boom.