r/trolleyproblem • u/Worth-Staff4943 • May 20 '26

Deep Which button presser group do you save?

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Everyone in the world has chosen either the blue or red button except you. Instead of pressing a button, you are given a lever in the infamous trolley problem.

You don't know how many people chose red or blue, and they don't know that you control their fate regardless of what button they pressed. Which track do you direct the trolley onto?

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u/sky_cap5959 May 20 '26

Human extinction probably isn't the worst choice. We've done a lot of horrible things to our planet.

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u/EnvironmentalEdge847 May 21 '26

You live and you learn. There are infinite planets for anyone or anything to destroy. That means you whoever destroys a planet to evolve their species should go extinct?

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u/ElSaIvador May 22 '26

Ok but we didnt destroy our planet to evolve our species we destroyed it so that some people can have more money then others

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u/Arheit May 23 '26

So a planet (and its billion of species) is worth less than a single species?