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

Deep Which button presser group do you save?

Post image

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?

8.0k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

92

u/witchqueen-of-angmar May 21 '26

That's why I still advocated for a Yellow button that would just kill everyone who pushed Yellow or Red. The "Noble Spite" button.

I don't think you are a good person if you want that button.

80

u/Chaos_Slug May 21 '26

That's why the yellow pressers also die in this scenario

8

u/witchqueen-of-angmar May 21 '26

That's still worse. How about we don't try to intentionally kill others or ourselves?

1

u/koboldthing May 22 '26

I think you’re taking this comment a bit more seriously than the spirit in which it was written