In that case, no, and you’re not responsible anymore. Those people working on switching out the trolley parts had every available opportunity to fully stop the trolley, more-so than you. You diverted it to save a life immediately, that crew maintaining this Trolley of Death are the real murderers.
What if the maintenance crew themselves didn’t know that the trolley was going to hit the tied down person 1000 miles away?
I blame the trolley company’s CEO and shareholders for allowing a random person to divert the trolley’s path in the first place.
I blame whoever tied the people down.
Another fine example of a precision scheduled trollies.
They were told that for every part they replaced, they were diverting another trolley down a 1000-mile track
I detect a hidden analogy of capitalism.
How?
Well it’s like my grandmother always used to say: “Capitalism is like a death trolley barrelling down 1000 miles of track towards you”
Can’t you just say the same thing about life in general?
Capitalism is maintained by others, and all most of us can do in our day to day lives is make sure that the people in our immediate vicinity aren’t killed by it.
After a few miles down the tracks, I won’t see or hear the trolley anymore, therefore i can not be certain it even exists anymore. It may have run over someone, it may have derailed, it may have exploded, it may have run out of fuel and stopped, a black hole might have opened up in its path and swallowed it whole.
The lack of object permanence solution to the trolly problem.
The trolly might not have but your choice did.
Can someone please stop the maniac who keeps tying all these people to trollie tracks?
This implies that they’re not doing this willingly.
At that point you pretty much got a whole day to go and rescue the guy, assuming trolley is traveling around 40-50mph
Bold of you to assume there’s a highway connection between you and the distant victim.
Trolley of Theseus!
Problems like this aren’t unsolved, it’s just that these problems have different answers depending on the context.
Is it the same trolley that kills the man? Yes because repairing the trolley doesn’t change it’s name.
Is it the same trolley that kills the man? No because it is physically not the same trolley.
Humans divide their cells until the original cells are gone. Are they a different person?
Yes they are.
No they aren’t.
Depends on what you’re measuring or what problem you’re trying to solve. But both perspectives are simultaneously true. Wait until you get to math and find out there’s different lengths of infinity. It’s all tools used to solve problems.
Easy task: Pull the lever, jump into car, rescue the man, far away. Then burn down the trolley and everyone involved in your misery.
So much work when all I want to do is run over people with a trolley.
Like the axe in John Dies at the End!
Hey, no spoilers!
You’re definitely not guilty.
Is this another Biden metaphor?
Elaborate?
In that people have been creating their own trolley problem memes to illustrate either how they think Biden is just as bad as Trump or that despite Biden being imperfect, he’s still the ethical “flip of the switch”.
I love the downvotes though on a simple question. It’s ironically unencumbering to be projected onto without any context to base one’s disagreement or anger.
