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Interestingly, I had almost the opposite reaction. In the absence of information, I don't know how these people got here or why. Maybe they're being executed as
by darkerside 4y ago
Interestingly, I had almost the opposite reaction. In the absence of information, I don't know how these people got here or why. Maybe they're being executed as criminals, maybe they are suicide attempts, maybe they are truly heinous people in the hands of a Just God.
But, I do know, if it's me on the track, I don't want to die. It's almost the only truly inarguable choice. With everything else, you think you know best for other people. With that one, you just know you don't want to die.
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- littlestymaar 4y agoI think you're mixing up two things: willingness to die, and the morality of the sacrifice. Most of us will be scared shitless if we were in that situation, and I'm pretty sure the majority (me included) will act as a coward. But nobody would blame them, because we all know we would likely have done the same. But on the other hand, we praise the heroes who sacrifice themselves because we recognize that they did the right thing, no matter how much it costed them.
- beeboop 4y agoI think we have the right to save ourselves with the options we have available. I didn't tie these people to the rails, I didn't set the trolley in motion towards people tied on rails, I'm not the one that had any sort of input on what the safety systems should be for the trolley. If I pull the lever to save myself and 5 people die, they die as a result of circumstance and insufficient safeguards of the trolley system itself.