M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL

*death finds a way.

Came here for this.

Gah, you beat me to it.

Simply hit all six with multi track drifting

Are you this kid?

Or just do whatever you feel like in the moment and then jump in front of the trolley to escape all consequences.

Well sure Batman can beat the trolley problem with prep time.

Problem EXTRA solved, those jackasses were too lazy to hit the emergency brakes and they can answer to FSM for their crimes.

We did it Patrick; we saved the city!

They did say CONTROLLED derailment..

Might need TAS

I'm always sad when I see this stuff. I know it's all jokes and whatnot, but the entire meme has been born out of a fundamental misunderstanding of the dilemma that the trolley problem is supposed to represent.

The question isn't, and has never been whether you throw the switch or not. The question is that if you throw the switch, are you responsible for killing the one, or conversely, if you do nothing, are you responsible for killing the others?

Whether you throw the switch or not is immaterial to the point. Kill one or kill four (or whatever) it doesn't matter. You didn't create that scenario, so by your inaction several people died, are you responsible for their deaths, considering you never put them in that position? Or are you exempt of blame since you basically chose to be an onlooker?

I don't really blame anyone for not getting it, I sure didn't for a really long time until my friend rephrased the same dilemma in a different way (and omitted the trolley): you go to lunch and have a delicious subway sandwich, but you were not very hungry so you only are half. On your travels from Subway to wherever, you pass by a homeless person begging for food. If you decide to ignore them and keep your food for yourself for later, and that person dies of starvation later that same day because of it, are you responsible for their death?

Then we will see some serious shit!

Then the trolley will fire wheel itself into the future and the people on the tracks will be spared

It's not going to flip. Tolleys derail all the time (ask people living in Wrocław). They can't go fast enough to flip. It will just stop after couple of meters.

The people in the train are the only ones with any power to stop it, but they're divided between "smash everyone quickly" and "smash everyone slowly" factions.

That could be misinterpreted to mean “turn around and go back the way you came”

Hmm I feel the urge to tuvix...

There's an old saying in Tennessee (I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee) that says, take the first path, shame on... shame on you. The third path- you can't get fooled again.

I don't believe in a no-win scenario.

• James T. Kirk

You control when it happens.