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Do not try to solve the trolley problem—that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no trolley. General Motors bought them all up and had them dumped in the ocean.
Kevin Karhan 
@theropologist EXACTLY!
Honestly Mom@theropologist when she was 4, we posed the problem to my daughter and she picked up the trolley and repeatedly ran over all the people and then kicked over the tracks, so she agrees with you I guess.
William HughesThe true solution to the Trolley Problem is to find the jerk running around tying 5 people to one track and 1 person to another and then seeing a trolley going and then abducting some other random person to force them to choose how many strangers should die.
Those people (or at least one of them) didn't tie themselves to the tracks, after all.
sabik
Ricki Yasha Tarr@theropologist I like you.
🚲@theropologist @forpeterssake The trolley problem is that there aren’t any?
m0xEE@dx Exactly! The trolley problem was never supposed to be a problem — there's just no trolley 🤪
It's one of those false dichotomies.
@theropologist @forpeterssake
It's one of those false dichotomies.
@theropologist @forpeterssake
Luke in Windsor
antipode77Looks like a typical prestige project.
A lot of hot air and little advantage for the citizens.
Eight million to showcase an antique streetcar.
Why not showcase in the Windsor Mall ?
No need for a new building. No flooding, because it is too close to the river.
Doctor Memory@theropologist @szeis4cookie I will never tire of reminding people that "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was a documentary.
Nerd That Talks Good@theropologist Let’s solve the Atari E.T. problem instead.
Keira 
@theropologist @jessica Pictured here: CEO of General Motors.
aethervision@theropologist @batkaren I KNEW Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a documentary. Thanks for confirming.
C.Note that some of this history is mentioned in passing in the excellent documentary film, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988).
Christopher Keener, pHd 
@theropologist @szescstopni you say there are no trolleys, but those fish might not agree! 🐟 🚃
RevJeber@theropologist
In 2023 replace the trolly with a self-driving Tesla.
In 2023 replace the trolly with a self-driving Tesla.
Noah Cook@theropologist I'm never sure quite how to tell people that I've never met a policy analyst who takes the Trolley Problem seriously.
It's reductive, overly simplistic...but the worst part is, it seems almost designed to encourage a really unhealthy attitude towards difficult situations like cost-benefit analyses.