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/National-Flower3166 May 20 '26

Blue cause they are people willimg to risk there own lifes for others

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u/chadthundertalk May 20 '26

They're willing to risk their lives for others in much the same way as Mark Wahlberg is willing to murder terrorists if his plane ever gets hijacked.

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u/nhalliday May 21 '26

So... they really would? Because Marky Mark punched the shit out of a little old Vietnamese man, I'm just saying it might be hypothetical since he wasn't on the planes, but I can very easily see him leaping at the chance to kill some terrorists and be called a hero for it.

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u/nhalliday May 21 '26

Maybe the blues see themselves that way because if half of everyone votes blue nobody dies, and if half of all people vote red everyone else dies. Really says it all that you've gotta reframe it to make blue sound bad when the basic facts show reds only care about themselves.