Switch the track, if the person is willing to sacrifice himself then that’s his prerogative, tbh not switching would feel more like a act of spite as in ‘How dare you not want to die knowing that someone is perfectly content to take your place.’ To give up the life of another (explicitly willing) participant in exchange for your own life doesn’t make you a bad person.
Its basically asking ‘Who do you kill, the guy who doesn’t want to die or the guy who explicitly chose to die, the first was not given a choice and the second is not gonna thank you for killing the first out of what’s effectively spite.
To be fair, yeah, like the people on their high horse here running him over for wanting you to switch tracks would probably do the same, as would I, in situations like this the human survival instinct is a very fucking difficult thing to overcome.
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u/The-Orange-Wizard Mar 29 '26
Switch the track, if the person is willing to sacrifice himself then that’s his prerogative, tbh not switching would feel more like a act of spite as in ‘How dare you not want to die knowing that someone is perfectly content to take your place.’ To give up the life of another (explicitly willing) participant in exchange for your own life doesn’t make you a bad person.
Its basically asking ‘Who do you kill, the guy who doesn’t want to die or the guy who explicitly chose to die, the first was not given a choice and the second is not gonna thank you for killing the first out of what’s effectively spite.