The trolley problem: your imagination versus the even sadder reality. (Just got this from a friend who also collects trolley problem variants.)

@ionica

Here's a great website with many trolley problems:

https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

Absurd Trolley Problems

Every problem is the trolley problem.

@ionica

The whole website is pretty good actually:

https://neal.fun

Neal.fun

Games, visualizations, interactives and other weird stuff.

@lightspeed @ionica

I love the stats "60% of people agree with you"... this would be a great matching basis for a dating site...

@ionica do not know what to say ... OMG
@ionica except that if the rich guy gets hit with the trolley, it will only be a mildly stubbed toe for him. Despite this, the trolley will still be sent to roll over the masses

@ionica I take it you're familiar with this "game"?

https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

Absurd Trolley Problems

Every problem is the trolley problem.

@Odanaos @ionica the philosopher’s stone
@Odanaos @ionica Happy and Not, as long as you don’t open the box he’s in?
@ionica brilliant and puts this interesting but quite abstract problem to bed. Excellent cartoon
@ionica I'm really, truly sick of the fact that we know this stuff, but we do nothing about it. Isn't it time we ripped up the tracks just after the switch?
@ionica
This version happens all the time!
Explains a lot.
@ionica close. the guy with the money is also telling the 5 of us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
@MattFerrel probably what drivers stopping on train tracks think happens
@ionica Nice, but i'd make a correction: there is not even the rich guy on the rails, just his money.
@ionica Uh, doesn't the fat guy get thrown off the bridge into the path of the trolley, derailing it, long before we get to this point?
@ionica I’ve go to give this to @benburgis@twitter
The Trolley Problem | The Good Place | Comedy Bites

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@ionica Why does the last panel use the future tense?
@ionica the real win here is to take his money and pull the lever anyway

@ionica @AnnemarieBridy

It's always a joyous day when I can share this:

#TrolleyProblem

@Beeks @ionica @AnnemarieBridy I’ve seen this with books from Ayn Rand or Jordan Peterson but this works
@ionica this is unrealistic for me. My city, and the USA generally, doesn't have public transportation I can use.
@ionica would be more accurate if trolley was fueled by tears🤣
@ionica this is a city archive schematic of Pacific Heights in SF depicting a gravity powered counter weight cable car @stevesilberman
@ionica solution: get rid of the idiot asking the question ;)
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@ionica

I'm a climate-change freak and this variant really speaks to me.

@ionica This reminds me of a favorite variant of a similar meme: The villain with curly mustache tying a damsel to the train tracks.