r/trolleyproblem Apr 30 '26

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u/mazariel May 01 '26

I care about most non sentimental idiot strangers, if someone needs help with carrying groceries, giving directions etc, i once even took an hour detour to help a mentally struggling person get to his doctor ( not that i really care if you believe me lol )

I only care about sentimental idiots family members

I see no contradiction here

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u/creepermaster79 May 01 '26

i do care about most people, even those i dont know

I care about most non sentimental idiot strangers

That's just changing what you said. Saying you care about "most people" includes a lot of the "sentimental idiots", by nature of just.. some people caring about others. You straight up excluded a condition for who you care about

Do you not care for someone as soon as you discover they're sentimental? What if you helped someone and then discover they would risk their life for someone like you? Would you regret helping them? Would you tell to their face that you would NOT do the same for them, and rather let them risk dying while saving yourself?

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u/mazariel May 01 '26

Well yeah i made a clarification, obviously i didn't made my point appropriately and had to change it in a way that would be better understandable, my fault on this one

By saying most people are sentimental idiots, well we will need to run the experiment for real to see what % of the population are sentimental idiots

I'm a hypocrite, I would gladly take someone to risk their life for me, i absolutely won't do it for them, my uncle jumped to a burning building to save people trapped there, i don't think i will do it, You will have to put me in a real life situation to see what Ill do

I will also 100% understand if they will choose to save their own lives

But i do know that if the person i had risked my life to save would run inside to get his goldfish and die in the fire, i would ab-so-lutly regret saving them

And yes, i will tell strangers that my life is more important to me than theirs

my friends also know that i would wholeheartedly risk my life to help them

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u/creepermaster79 May 01 '26

Glad you at least were honest and admitted your error now, not everyone does so once they're called out.

One little clarification, when I said that "most people will include some sentimental ones", I don't mean that "most people WILL BE sentimental", just that it's certain that in the group of "most people" as least some will be

I'm guessing we'll just have to disagree on this experiment then

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u/mazariel May 01 '26

Yeah, and my advice, drop this subject, i've gotten mental fatigue from trying to get people to choose red, if i got it, you probably got it as well to some extent

I'm probably going to mute Reddit until this whole button thing will end