The party at the switch are billionaires, the large group of people is the world’s population and the individual on the track is billionaire wealth (not a person, unless we substitute a corporation, then SCOTUS treats it like human embryo).
The billionaires have welded the switch to “kill world population”
The Trolley problem is meant to tease out moral instincts in impossible situations
STOP the trolley
RESCUE all the tied-up people
HUNT DOWN AND EAT the persons who chained the innocent and set the fucking trolley in motion in the first place
@courtcan@GhostOnTheHalfShell
This right here is how we change the world- by refusing to choose only from options offered by the system! I can’t even begin to tell you how piercing your reply is for me. Thank you.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@KrisConsaul@courtcan reminds me of the first episode of Connections, and what one could try to do if the city’s power went down and stayed down.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@KrisConsaul I would most likely be dead within a few weeks. I'm a city girl through and through -- zero "roughing it" survival skills, plus a host of chronic illnesses that would at least slow me down enough to make me an easy target for human predators.
Anything I might know about surviving in that situation, I learned from The Walking Dead.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@KrisConsaul No, it definitely is not pleasant. And what our entertainment media have taught us is that when it happens, it happens fast. In reality, what we're seeing has been decades in coming and will likely continue a slow disintegration over at least another decade or two, would be my guess.
I suspect that's one reason so many people are in denial that it's happening. They can't see it in real time, and they're unaware of history and astute sociological predictions.
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