A trolley is speeding toward two people: one is someone you love, the other is s...

[lunar harbor]

buy another trolley and crash both problem solved

[lucid vapor]

get a strong guy like eddie hall and stop the trolley problem solved

[shy peak]

I personally would choose who I think has the better potential for a happy life.

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[molten spade]

does this question target romantic relationships or just any relationship in general?

[shy peak]

any relationship

why?

[molten spade]

my answer changes based on it

[shy peak]

what would your difference in answers be?

[molten spade]

if it was romantic then the person i love, if it was anything else then the person that loves me

[shy peak]

ok

[quaint bolt]

of1d polls getting crazy philosophical

[bold atlas]

Throw an extremely overweight man of a bridge overlooking the tracks in order to stop the trolley

[shy peak]

that's another type of trolley problem. instead of pulling the lever, it is throwing a person, and people are shown to have had a higher probability of choosing the 5 people , even though the outcome is the same in both the situations

[bold atlas]

Yeah ik it’s called the Fat Man variations

[lunar harbor]

nah just throw the fat man nuke to stop it boom problem solved

[raw gorge]

Explain to me why option 2 has more votes. If some rando loves me and I don’t love them I’m obviously picking someone I love like a family member or significant other.

[quaint bolt]

that would mean the family member doesn’t love you

if it was a family member that does love you they’re safe and excluded from the theoretical

[raw gorge]

Shi I need to re read this