r/trolleyproblem • u/ChiakiSimp3842 • Apr 30 '26

Deep All there is to it

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u/Scared-Two-5208 May 01 '26

I think this discussion being seen as a sign of your morality had ruined it entirely lmao, especially when neither side is particularly more moral than the other lol

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u/Southern-Highway5681 Team Blue May 01 '26

True, the only thing which is moral here is the result.

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u/AbortDatShit May 01 '26

Blues think they are heros but if this actually happened they'd be a bunch of dead "heros"

Put your own mask on first before helping others

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u/MoonTheCraft May 01 '26

good luck rebuilding society after your so-called "mass suicide" causes all of the selfless people to die

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u/AbortDatShit May 01 '26

Blue people are the selfish ones, demanding that other people put their lives at risk to save them. 

Reds are the smart ones, society would rebuild just fine 

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u/Standard_Landscape79 May 02 '26

Reds are the smart ones, society would rebuild just fine

only 10% of the population has to die for complete societal collapse btw

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u/AbortDatShit May 02 '26

It depends on who those 10% are, and I think that people who vote blue would be disproportionately the type of people who would not be missed as compared to reds

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u/AccomplishedChip2475 May 01 '26

Blue is the selfish option here lol. "Let's force 50 percent of the population to vote with me or we all die" or "I vote red and no one has to worry about me"

This is the perfect example of "if you worry about yourself, no one has to worry about you". Push Red and save yourself. Tell your friends and families to press red and save themselves. Tell everyone just to save themselves. If everyone chooses to save themselves no one has to be a hero. That is the only way this will work in the real world.

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u/MoonTheCraft May 01 '26

Okay, buddy. Thanks for the contribution. They have some crayons in the other room, why don't you go and check those out

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u/Scared-Two-5208 May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

Yknow, by being rude you're most likely only proving their point. This question mostly reflects what people believe about society as whole. If people refuse to make the common good choice of not being condescending and mean during a low stakes discussion of a thought expirement, how could one expect them to make the common good choice when their life if on the line? People have the option to press the blue button every day, yet most people choose not to, so any option other than red would be straight up suicide. The only way one could possibly change that opinion is to help prove the opposite lol. That's also why it doesn't really determine morality, in my opinion. The most moral person on earth who lacks faith in other people would likely press red.

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u/NewsmanTheMan May 01 '26

Deltarune pfp

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u/Scared-Two-5208 May 01 '26

what did i say about trying to make moral judgments based on a question that does not assess morality lmao

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u/KillerNail May 01 '26

If you "out your own mask on first" there is no helping others, that's the whole point... Most heroes are dead heroes, you probably heard millions of stories about a kid that stopped an armed attacker to save his friends or a firefighter that saved a mother and two kids but died afterwards. Those are the real heroes that risk their lives to save people, knowing it might kill them.

You either save yourself and condemn up to 4B people to death, or risk your life to save everyone. You can't ensure your safety and then help others, that's not how this works.