Runaway Train Problem...

[efq]

it change the tracks when the train is half over it hoping to de-rail it sliding into the 1 person, 5 people and the people on the train ahha

[Recursion]

If they were standing around on a track then they must be chavs, so I'd let the train mow them down.

+REP qft and it's freakin funny to read.

[Zokoli]

This would never happen to me, I'm sure of it.


But if it did somehow I would just turn my back and walk the other way. :eusa_whis

[Kardan]

Assuming I was in this suituation and had todo one or the other, I'd pull the lever. I've saved 5 lives, rather than not pulling the lever and saving none.

It's like how some governments are willing to shoot a plane down and sacrifice the people on the plane so it doesn't plow into a building and killing those on the plane and many more for example.

[jackass]

I would leave it how it is, because as you said, by leaving the controls, it isn't my decision to kill them, but by changing them, it WAS my decision to 'kill' that one person.

[ItsDave]

You obviously don't know how trains work. They dont simply, lose control and their brakes go. They have brakes, and they have back-up brakes, and then they have emergancy brakes. A train going downhill because it's lost control is very unlikley and also, how long is this hill? With the huge weight of the train, it would take a while for it to gain any possible speed. AND ALSO! Why don't these people move? Are they stuck, glued or tied to the track?

[jackass]

You obviously don't know how trains work. They dont simply, lose control and their brakes go. They have brakes, and they have back-up brakes, and then they have emergancy brakes. A train going downhill because it's lost control is very unlikley and also, how long is this hill? With the huge weight of the train, it would take a while for it to gain any possible speed. AND ALSO! Why don't these people move? Are they stuck, glued or tied to the track?

I think you seriously need to grasp the point of this thread.

[GommeInc]

I think you seriously need to grasp the point of this thread.

What point? It's unclear and silly It makes no sense and the make-up of it doesn't correlate with the ins and outs of basic train mechanics and infrastructure.

Besides, apparently there is more than one control, so there could always be another lever to save everyones lives from a slow nudge at the bottom of the hill

The plane example would be better, or a car example. Something that's fast and does potential damage. This is a terrible analogy!

[Jahova]

If they were standing around on a track then they must be chavs, so I'd let the train mow them down.

Hear hear, + REP.

[LoveToStack]

What point? It's unclear and silly It makes no sense and the make-up of it doesn't correlate with the ins and outs of basic train mechanics and infrastructure. This is a terrible analogy!

The jist of it is clear - to try to understand how people value human life. It's very similar to the Joker's final stunt with the ferrys.
It's impossible to be totally impartial, what if someone told you to decide who they would kill, either the love of your life or two random strangers - answer or they will all be killed. People shouldn't be made to make such choices because, I at least, feel it's impossible to weigh someone's life against another.