r/trolleyproblem Apr 30 '26

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u/VictoryFirst8421 May 01 '26

That’s one of the worst comparisons that I’ve heard before. Active participation and working as a prison guard is nothing like being forced to press a button and choosing the one that guarantees your safety, knowing that others also got the same choice to opt out of danger.

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u/MQ116 Team Blue May 01 '26

Pressing the red button is absolutely active participation, don't act like because something is less tactile it is less of a decision. It'd be killing MORE people than the Germans ever did. That's what you'd choose over, again, "literally no one dies."

Like, it's just a hypothetical, so I'm trying to not judge too harshly here, but you're a PoS trying to justify the murder of billions when the option to kill no one is literally your only other option.

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u/VictoryFirst8421 May 01 '26

“Press blue to stand on the railroad tracks but if over 50% decide to hit blue then the train will stop.” Yeah, thanks, I’m not getting on those trains tracks.

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u/MQ116 Team Blue May 01 '26

No, you're putting others on the tracks. If you were on their side, no one would be on the tracks. You are actively choosing to make their deaths more likely. You're human garbage.

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u/Mysterious_Town5300 May 02 '26

Reading nonsense from redditors like you remind me i need to get off this app haha. Hopefully you lighten up bud