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Poll: What will you choose to do?
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I will choose to push the fat man onto the tracks.
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I will choose to do nothing.
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#1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem"
If the fat man is big enough to crash the train and I'm strong enough to hurl him, then what about using him like a giant bowling ball to crush all the people and derail the train into, like, a ravine with a village at the bottom? Wouldn't that kill the most?
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)

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RE: #1 Thought experiment - "The Trolley Problem" - by Redbeard The Pink - May 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm

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