• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Please do, I’d love to be able to just slap that image down whenever “bUt tHe gEnOcIdE!” comes up around here.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      The anti-genocide group sees both main parties as driving the trolley. They would like them to just maybe hit the brake, noone needs to be run over. They see the lever as irrelevant because again just please stop the trolley.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Unfortunately, that argument doesn’t fit with one of the primary aspects of The Trolley Problem - it involves a runaway trolley. The obviously-preferred solution to “stop the trolley” isn’t an option, because stopping the trolley isn’t possible.

        • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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          6 hours ago

          that argument doesn’t fit with one of the primary aspects of The Trolley Problem - it involves a runaway trolley. The obviously-preferred solution to “stop the trolley” isn’t an option, because stopping the trolley isn’t possible.

          hold my blunt while I butcher this metaphor:

          from Wikipedia

          Reversing the points under a moving train will almost always derail the train.